System and Session Bus

[Milosz Derezynski]

Sorry, for one, a typo correction. I meant _system_ bus here of course:

"[...] so there is no need to connect to the session bus by yourself; [...]"

And yeah, that _is_ the case, but that's what libhal does for you: it
connects to HAL's interface
on the system bus, so you don't have to deal with this.

On 3/20/06, Oliver Frommel <ofrommel at linuxnewmedia.de> wrote:
>
> >
> > Not the text editor maybe, but:
> > > - most sound software (USB audio and midi devices)
> > > - software for digital cameras
> > > - video editing software (IEEE1394)
> > >
> > > In these cases I would connect the application to the system bus
> > > and register them for events of the appropriate devices of the
> > > Hal service. Additionally I would have to connect to the
> > > session bus to make the applications scriptable or exchange
> > > data with cooperating applications.
> >
> >
> > Yes but there exists libhal which is a library that abstracts out
> > communication with hal trough DBus for the API user, so there is no need
> to
> > connect to the session bus by yourself; instead you can make use of
> libhal,
> > and don't need to deal with DBus directly at all there. There is also
> > libhal-storage, which is a separate library with an even simpler
> interface
> > since storage handling is a very common use case when using HAL.
>
> That's interesting. From what I read I figured it was the
> other way round: that you make use of D-Bus to access HAL.
>
> Best
> Oliver
>
>
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