"default" object path

Lennart Poettering mzqohf at 0pointer.de
Fri Oct 16 14:22:47 PDT 2009


On Fri, 16.10.09 23:18, Thiago Macieira (thiago at kde.org) wrote:

> Em Sexta-feira 16. Outubro 2009, às 22.02.32, David Zeuthen escreveu:
> > 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
> 
> Make / the default object. Easy to type, even on busybox on an embedded 
> device.

Oh. no! That would be wrong. The / path should *not* be used for anything.

Lennart

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