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

[Dario Freddi]

(sorry for resending, stupid gmail didn't include David in the reply)

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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