KDE adoption of D-Bus

[Thiago Macieira]

Hello everyone,

I'm posting this as a KDE developer.

In order to adopt D-Bus as a replacement for DCOP in KDE4, there are a 
couple of things we'll need, aside from the Qt4 bindings that I'm taking 
care of. So I'm wondering how far along these things are:

1) Windows and MacOS X support
KDE4 (or at least KDE 4 applications) is supposed to run on both of those 
platforms. Has libdbus been ported to those platforms? Does it work? Are 
there known problems?

2) starting the session bus daemon on demand
KDE 3 applications will currently start the DCOP server daemon if none is 
running. This is necessary to provide the IPC that KDE 3 applications 
require.

If we switch to D-Bus to accomplish those same tasks, KDE 4 applications 
will need the D-Bus session server daemon to be started even if run in an 
environment without it. To illustrate, imagine a user running Konqueror 
inside his preferred window manager out of 1996 -- or on Windows.

In other words, is it possible to use D-Bus session if the daemon isn't 
running and DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS isn't set?

I can provide the code myself in the Qt bindings or whichever KDE wrapper 
we write, but I would rather see a common solution. Especially 
considering this will very likely be the case for Windows and MacOS X.
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