org.freedesktop.PowerManagement

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday 22 March 2007 19:25 +0100, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Kevin Krammer wrote:
> >> Any library designed to be used by other languages.
> >
> >Hmm, I thought that the main idea in D-Bus is to always use bindings.
>
> True, but many projects feel they must provide a C library that wraps the
> D-Bus calls. They don't bind to the application, though and don't use a
> binding.

I know and I admit that it is a good use case for applications where this is 
the only use of D-Bus.
However, as someone else mentioned in this thread, such a wrapper library can 
then opt to cache the "ugly" dictionary in some context/handle and provide 
easy primitive accessors.

I agree with Havoc that this issue has gotten more attention in this thread 
than necessary, but I was quite irritated that the use case of a convenience 
wrapper would have such strong influence on the actual D-Bus API.

Bitfields are a low level method of implementing sets of booleans and 
therefore might not be a very good choice in a high level abstraction like a 
D-Bus interface.

As a bad example see Microsoft's usage of bitfields in their XML office 
document format.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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