"default" object path

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Fri Oct 16 13:02:32 PDT 2009


On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 19:28 +0000, Colin Walters wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Random thought; this may have some up before, but a in a lot of cases
> (system service, desktop app) there tends to be one "manager" object
> which is the primary interface to the app.
> 
> People have complained about the verbosity of dbus-send before, and
> they're not really wrong.  

We have bash-completion support in dbus-send [1]. It solves all of these
problems. IOW, let's not add features to the protocol / spec when we can
just as easily fix the tools.

    David

[1] : Admittedly it broke with bash 4.0 but that's a bug we need to fix




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