Hi all,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rob Taylor</b> <<a href="mailto:robtaylor@floopily.org">robtaylor@floopily.org</a>> wrote:<br><br>The image *does not* have to be base64 encoded, you can send binary
<br>blobs over DBus as an array of bytes. base64 encoding just wastes time,<br>memory and power ;)<br><br></span></div>This is not that simple, send base64 via dbus is not a good ideia, but connection managers will receive it anyway, decode it and send it over dbus. This will require some buffers and in a big contact list it is a big chance to have memory leaks or crashs. So maybe its a better idea to sent the raw data and the encode type than application will know how to decode it. Also would be good to think on this funcion as a generic file transfer too.