[Spice-devel] Spice bug62033, Gnome bug 680195 rework: new inhibitors for desktop effects

[Fedor Lyakhov]

Hi everyone,

As we've decided a while ago (ITT), I'm looking into implementing a
DBus interface for spice-vdagent (session-level) using GDbus API from
GIO, and have run into following shortcomings:

1. vdagent is single-threaded and blocks on select() for udscs I/O
2. vdagent isn't GLib-based

A simplest solution I'm going to try first:
1. Add GLib main loop in the vdagent main thread
2. Create a separate GThread for all current I/O

Will such change be acceptable?

Next steps I can think of:
1. Use GSource to attach current udscs I/O to GMainLoop
2. Move most of current udscs messages to DBus - probably need to keep
using udscs for xfer for performance reasons.

What do you think?

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Best regards,
Fedor