Question on service activation

[Havoc Pennington]

Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 3) via daemon, by way of automatic aliasing: the daemon bestows the shared 
> name automatically on the application as soon as it registers another 
> well-known name. That is, given two email applications org.kde.kmail and 
> org.gnome.evolution, the user configuration states 
> that "org.freedesktop.email is an alias to org.gnome.evolution". If the 
> user starts both apps, as soon as Evolution requests its WK name, the bus 
> automatically bestows upon Evolution the fd.o alias. Neither KMail nor 
> Evolution need to know that they are the default.
> 

This sounds really nice, I hadn't thought of this approach. This 
requires no work at all in the apps, and would be simple to implement in 
the daemon.

Havoc