[Kstars-devel] Re: D-Bus documentation
Alexey Khudyakov
alexey.skladnoy at gmail.com
Tue Jul 26 18:47:35 CEST 2011
On 26.07.2011 18:55, Burkhard Lück wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 26. Juli 2011, um 12:29:27 schrieb Alexey Khudyakov:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Kstars provide D-Bus interface. Alas it's not documented and thus barely
>> usable. I think that first thing to do is document every exposed dbus
>> function.
>>
>> Any suggestions where such documentation should be located?
>
> Why not in the Kstars Handbook chapter The Script Builder Tool?
> This is about scripting KStars via D-Bus, so it seems the natural place to
> document the D.Bus interface there.
>
Kstars handbook looks like a right place. Thank you! Although I think
dbus scripting deserve separate section. There around 20 functions,
examples for several languages should be provided as well.
> Then the Script Builder dialog just needs a Help button which opens the
> chapter The Script Builder Tool with an explanation of all D-Bus calls.
>
Well I think that script builder should be removed. It's mostly useful
as documentation tool and is pretty useless for everything else.
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