[compiz] [PATCH] Descriptions for dbus when plugin not loaded

[Mike Dransfield]

David Reveman wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 19:23 +0100, Mike Dransfield wrote:
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>> Here is a quick patch for dbus to make it try to load the
>> metadata from a file if the plugin is not loaded.
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>> I have tested it and it works fine, but I wanted to check to
>> see if you had something else in mind.
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> Yes, I think we should load/initialize and read the metadata from
> plugins. Some minor changes need to be made to the plugin system before
> we're able to load and initialize a plugin without activating it but it
> should be easy to fix.
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I thought you might have something like that in mind, I shall
wait for that to be done.

> BTW, I'm not very interested in just returning the descriptions.
> The GetPluginMetadata method should return an array of full meta data
> documents. This needs to be supported by the dbus plugin before we can
> remove plugin dependencies from the core.
>   

Once the above is done, I can look at modifying the getMetadata
function.  I think it would be appropriate to change this function
to return a dictionary because its likely that it will be modified
and it will save breaking scripts.

> - David
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