org.freedesktop.PowerManagement

[Rob Taylor]

Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 March 2007 21:57 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 15:58 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
>>> As an alternative to a bitfield, one option is a dictionary of
>>> properties. This is most likely nicer than a bitfield in say python,
>>> and more annoying than a bitfield in C.
>> Yes, a dictionary might be nice, but it's not trivial to access in C.
>> This stuff really needs to be *trivial* for an application to access,
>> hence why I think booleans are probably best.
> 
> How likely is an application written in C not going to use the D-Bus glib 
> bindings?
> 
> (Assuming that these bindings support dictionaries)

heh, dbus-glib does support dicts, but it returns it as a GHashTable.
Its not exactly the nicest way of reading a set of flags...

Rob Taylor