User bus conclusion

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Tue Nov 9 15:25:16 PST 2010


On Tuesday, 9 de November de 2010 23:06:42 Ryan Lortie wrote:
>  - we recommend the session bus will no longer be started
> 
>  - we recommend that the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable
>    be set to the socket of the user bus (to support old DBus client
>    libraries and/or applications)
> 
>  - maybe eventually DBus client libraries can issue deprecation warnings
>    to stderr about session bus use by applications

Isn't the new user bus simply saying that the session bus has a fixed address? 

Why do we need new API and deprecation warnings?

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