Guidance in (re)design of sytem using dbus

[Simon McVittie]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 at 08:48:43 +0100, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Yes, a simple signal from the privileged service to all system tray 
> applets would be enough for status updates. The receivers do not require 
> anything special to listen for signals, not even unique bus names. The 
> service, however, should have a unique name.

... by which you meant "well-known bus name". A well-known bus name
(aka "service name") looks like com.example.MyApp; the privileged service
needs one of these, the receivers don't.

(A unique name looks like :1.12 - all D-Bus connections automatically have one
of these.)

Pedantically,
    Simon