Proposal and RFC: DAL, the Desktop Abstraction Layer

[Jamie McCracken]

Ikke wrote:
>>Why don't you look at the dbus code and see what happens? You certainly
>>aren't going to get anywhere on DAL without looking at code and learning
>>what it does.
> 
> I will. But reading the DBUS code isn't done in 5 minutes. If you want
> to swap with me, I'll do some DBUS stuff and you'll learn my chemistry,
> ok?

I would wait for the updated documentation/tutorial from Havoc instead 
of diving into the code (IMHO you should only ever need to look at the 
code if you intend to hack on it and thats why we have documentation in 
the first place).

Anyhow the bulk of the work will be in specifying the various 
freedesktop services so if you have time on your hands by all means 
start there.

It would be nice if those specs were formal based (EG xml format) as 
they might come in handy if we ever have a GOB equivalent for Dbus (or 
indeed if GOB were to support it for GObjects). Being able to select a 
spec and get the boiler plate code autogenerated for it would be a real 
boon!

jamie