KDE adoption of D-Bus

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 16.02.06 16:41, Thiago Macieira (thiago.macieira at trolltech.com) wrote:

> >If this has a realistic chance to be merged, I would be willing to
> >contribute a patch that uses dlopen() to access the X11 display.
> 
> I much prefer the solution Havoc pointed out in another email (which I 
> read only after having replied here):

I don't cnsider dlopen() "dirty" in this case. However,
launching an external program on every connection seems a little dirty
to me.

> use an external program that would do the auto-launch or read the 
> property. Then we'd have no dlopen trickery to open the libX11.so file. 
> It would be a build-time decision whether to create this executable. And 
> it would be up to distributors to decide whether they want to break their 
> dbus packages into one that doesn't require X11 and one that does.

The dlopen() solution wouldn't require such a splitting. And the lib
would automatically upgraded to support X11 if libX11 is found at a
later time.

Lennart

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