[Kde-hardware-devel] Solid: changes in wicd DBus API

[Dario Freddi]

Hi David,

2011/11/15 David Paleino <d.paleino at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
> (please CC me on replies)
>
> I'm an upstream developer of wicd, and Anthony (CCed, upstream of the wicd-kde
> frontend) suggested that I warned KDE Solid developers about changes in wicd
> DBus interface.

Thank you very much for your warning, we really appreciate that :)
Good luck with the new release!

>
> With the upcoming 1.7.1 (which I plan to release on 17-18 December, Anthony
> will release wicd-kde on that date too), the DBus interface will indeed change.
> In order to have some proper l10n (with .po files, xgettext and such), I had to
> change CheckWire{d,less}ConnectingMessage() to return a proper message, instead
> of a "status code" (which was used for comparisons elsewhere in the code) --
> that old behaviour is now available from CheckWire{d,less}ConnectingStatus()
> (which are two new methods).
>
> Please have a look at revision 605:
>
>    http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~wicd-devel/wicd/experimental/revision/605#wicd/wicd-daemon.py
>
> You can use the Hello() DBus daemon method to get the wicd version; I suggest
> checking for >= 1.7.1 and using the appropriate method.
>
> Thank you,
> David
>
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