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

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 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.
>
> [1] maybe there is a way in the Qt4 bindings to allow a proxy object
> to be instantiated without introspecting the target

Since this problem is not PIM-specific I'd escalate it to 
kde-core-devel. I cannot imagine we are the first people running into 
this problem.


Regards,
Ingo
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