[pulseaudio-discuss] What-did-you-plugin-dialog

[David Henningsson]

Hi,

I talked to Tanu and Arun last week about my what-did-you-plugin-dialog,
and got some push back about my way of popping up the dialog.

So, instead, what do you think of this solution - does this provide a
good separation between PulseAudio and the GUI process:

 * The dialog will be popped up through DBus activation. We define some
DBus name, e g org.pulseaudio.WhatDidYouPlugIn - and when accessing this
name, the process will be started by DBus.
 * There will be DBus methods for popping up and killing the dialog, and
a signal back when the user selects something in the dialog (or cancels it).

Second, we will create a new pulseaudio sub-project, pa_popup_dialogs or
something. This will contain the current dialog (it's designed by
Canonical, but it's nothing Ubuntu specific about it), and our
recommended solution by upstream. If gnome, kde, or some other DE wants
to write their own themed dialog, they will just install their own
solution instead, which we will communicate with through the
org.pulseaudio.WhatDidYouPlugIn name/interface. (I have some test code
using zenity too, but that will be dropped.)

Thankful for a quick ack/nak on this.

-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
https://launchpad.net/~diwic