Proposal and RFC: DAL, the Desktop Abstraction Layer

[Jamie McCracken]

Ikke wrote:
> Wrote up a simple XML document describing an app.
> 
> This is just a sample, got some issues left (the "name" property -> not
> conformant with other object properties, etc) but well.
> 
> I did not write an XSD schema or some XSLT things, that's for later when
> the final schema is made.
> 
> Please review and let me know what you think :-)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ikke
> http://www.eikke.com
> 
> 
  A few things:

Interfaces:

  <Interface>org.freedesktop.DIS.MusicPlayer</Interface>

This would be better as :
<Interfaces>
<Interface name="org.freedesktop.MusicPlayerInterface">Interface 
Description here </Interface>
</Interfaces>

Bear in mind a service can have multiple interfaces and I believe 
interfaces should be in A.B.C format (not A.B.C.D).



Events:

  <Event name="NewTrackStarted">

I am used to events having the word "On" prefixed to them so as to 
distinguish them from methods so it would be nice if it where:

<Event name="OnNewTrackStarted">

Also you have a method called "OnTurntable" could you not replace that 
with "GetCurrentTrackURI" (I would also think you would need 
SetCurrentTrackURI instead of PlaybackURI too - its a good idea to use 
Get/Set methods where relevant as these would then translate nicely into 
GObject properties and in this case CurrentTrackURI would be such a 
read/write property)


jamie.