Impress Remote / dbus

[Michael Stahl]

On 04/09/12 17:47, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 14:59 +0200, Andrzej J. R. Hunt wrote:
>> gdbus is included in glib >= 2.26 (i.e. since 2010), dbus-glib is
>> included in the LO codebase and works with all versions of glib (as
>> far as I can tell).
>>
>> Currently dbus-glib is only used in vcl with gtk, and it is only
>> compiled when --enabled-dbus is used. (The doc on the autogen.sh page
>> states " Determines whether to enable presentation mode screensaver
>> control under GNOME via DBUS.")  It appears that this isn't very
>> commonly enabled (default is off, and only enabled for OxygenOffice in
>> distro-configs).
> 
> Well, FWIW 
> 
> a) I think we should at this stage default dbus usage on for generic
> Unix and require the use of --disable-dbus if building against a
> too-old/missing dbus.
> 
> b) I think we should raise the baseline that we build the downloadable
> universal version of LibreOffice on from effectively RHEL-4 to at least
> RHEL-5.

yes, that would make a lot of sense; getting a useful LO build out of
such an antique baseline is probably quite painful.  fwiw the last OOo
release was built on a RHEL5 baseline already (well, Oracle's RHEL clone
product of course).