[Kde-pim] Running KMail and calling via D-Bus

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday, 2009-08-04, Thomas McGuire wrote:

> I had the same problem with the Kolab resource, which needs a special
> interface to show up to work.
> What I did to solve that was a introducing a nasty hack: After I created
> that interface in KMail, I added a dummy D-Bus service
> "org.kde.kmail.groupware". This way, I then use Qt to see if the
> org.kde.kmail.groupware service is up, which in turn also means my
> groupware interface/object is ready.
> Not a nice solution though. The code is in
> KMailConnection::waitForGroupwareObject() in
> kdepim/kresources/kolab/shared/kmailconnection.cpp.

Wouldn't it be easier if an always existing object would emit a D-Bus signal 
when it has successfully created sub objects?

Sure, it is a pity that QDBusInterface seems to test validity at creation time 
[1] thus not allowing the interface itself to emit that signal, but it still 
sounds less messy than to register another name.

Cheers,
Kevin

[1] maybe there is a way in the Qt4 bindings to allow a proxy object to be 
instantiated without introspecting the target

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

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