PropertiesChanged signal

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Am Freitag, den 07.05.2010, 21:53 +0200 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> Em Sexta-feira 7. Maio 2010, às 19.06.16, David Zeuthen escreveu:
> > Many people have asked for a generic mechanism to convey that one or
> > more properties has changed on an object so they don't have to roll
> > their own signals for this. Attached is a spec patch to define such a
> > mechanism. Some notes
> > 
> >  - this new signal is optional
> > 
> >  - even if implemented, a service may opt to avoid using it for huge
> > properties (e.g. probably want to avoid using it on a a 300 element
> > a{i{tt}ss} property called ChatRoomParticipants)
> 
> I will not implement this property in QtDBus unless there's a subscribe method 
> to trigger the emission of the signal. Anything else is wasteful.

And while we're there we could/should also fix the client-based signal
matching, which is IMO one of the major design flaws in DBus.
I know that the desktop people don't care, but still...

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