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

[Mike Dransfield]

I have quite a few changes planned for the dbus
and annotate plugins.  I am working towards a
full scripting API which can use the plugins'
individual functions for themselves.

My first proof of concept was a copy of
cairo-clock but rendered to the screen rather
than as an app.  It used python to communicate
over dbus with the annotate plugin.

I hope you dont mind, but I would like to maintain
a version of dbus and annotate for a while so that I
can work on a better API.  A git repository would be
useful here because it would make it easier for people
to test and provide feedback.  We are having trouble
with exchanging tarballs over a forum :)

My current versions are here, the only real difference
at the moment is that I use dictionaries and my
annotate has svg support.

http://www.anykeysoftware.co.uk/compiz/plugins/scripting-0.9.1.tar.bz2

I obviously would like all of this included in the official
distribution eventually, but I would like to experiment
a bit to see what is and what isn't possible.

Also, would you be open to me writing patches so that
things are returned as a dictionary?, it would help with
forward compatibility if any extra information is added.

Thanks


David Reveman wrote:
> 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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