Proposal and RFC: DAL, the Desktop Abstraction Layer

[David Eriksson]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 12:00 +0000, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Ikke wrote:
> >>So would you consider adding profile support to Dbus?
> > 
> > 
> > Wouldn't this take away the ease that DBUS brings? Now you can say "I
> > need to send out one stupid simple message, let's use DBUS, it's like 5
> > lines of code". Once you need to start writing profiles for the message
> > you want to send it starts to become quite bloated.
> > Defining interfaces can and should be done by some fdo standard (thats
> > why I proposed DAL in the first place: standardize
> > inter-desktop-application communication). 
> 
> The profile is defined by freedesktop and would be on its website - ie 
> its purely documentation and describes the interface (I used xml to do 
> it but you could use something else). You never need to send the xml or 
> include it in your code - sorry for that confusion. The only thing 
> needed to be added to Dbus would be a means to query for a list of 
> services that implement a profile.

Sounds good!

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