[compiz] Re: [PATCH] Dbus improvements (was Include option type in gconf schema)

[David Reveman]

I've improved mike's patch a bit and included it. I also made the dbus
plugin send signals when options change.

-David

On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 16:19 +0000, Ben Reeves wrote:
> Whats the status of these patches, are they going to be included in
> git? I would really think these improvements would be useful
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
> On 11/24/06, Mike Dransfield <mike at blueroot.co.uk> wrote:
>         
>         > Great, I've been hoping that someone would implement
>         functionality for
>         > retrieving all the option meta data through the dbus plugin.
>         Let me know
>         > when this is ready to go into head and I'll have a look at
>         it. 
>         >
>         >
>         
>         I think the attached patch is much better than the previous
>         one I have made the methods return complex datatypes and
>         I have split the function into type specific rest
>         functions.  This
>         will hopefully make it much easier for strictly typed 
>         languages.
>         
>         I have also added some changes to send notifications as
>         signals,
>         this serves as a simple way for the actions to return
>         information, doing it any other way would mean some nasty
>         hacks to the core.  The downside is that script writers will 
>         have to deal with asynchronous programming.
>         
>         I will have a look at adding some functions to get information
>         on windows and screens and then I will have a look at
>         introspection.
>         
>         I have attached the patches in the git format specified, 
>         hopefully they will be acceptable.
>         
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