[kde-linux] Dbus "interfaces"

[Kevin Krammer]

On Saturday, 2011-12-31, James Tyrer wrote:
> On 12/30/2011 01:23 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Friday, 2011-12-30, James Tyrer wrote:
> >> There are various instances of:
> >> 
> >> ... /share/dbus-1/interfaces/
> >> 
> >> on my system and I can not remember how Dbus finds them.
> > 
> > D-Bus does not look for them.
> > Those are development files, similar to headers just a bit more abstract.
> > 
> >> I am guessing that it is with the: "XDG_DATA_DIRS" path, but I didn't
> >> quickly find this info with Google.
> > 
> > Probably depends on the build system but whatever mechanism is being used
> > is almost certainly checking that variable.
> > Could check some additional paths though.
> > 
> >> Does anyone know for sure or have a link to documentation?
> > 
> > No idea, but my guess is that for KDE's build system (cmake) there will
> > most likely be a cmake macro in kdelibs' cmake modules.
> > 
> >> Apparently, I was not able to find this information previously since my
> >> tutorial:
> >> 
> >> http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Tutorials/D-Bus/Configuration
> >> 
> >> doesn't seem to cover that. :-)
> >> 
> >> Help would be appreciated so that I can finish the tutorial.
> > 
> > Since that tutorial covers runtime D-Bus configuration this is probably
> > out of scope for it.
> 
> OK, so other than the general requirement that: "XDG_DATA_DIRS" needs to
> include all of the "share" directories, there is no specific requirement
> for this.

Right.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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