[Telepathy] Proposed API for client side of tp-glib

[Xavier Claessens]

Le mardi 07 août 2007 à 09:26 +0300, Alberto Mardegan a écrit :
> ext Xavier Claessens wrote:
> > I was thinking about a new design for the client side API of tp-glib,
> > something more object-oriented than libtp. The main goal is to
> > completely remove dbus from the API, no more DBusGProxy, only GObjects.
> [...]
> > What do you think about? Should I continue in that way? Should I forget
> > about that idea and just generate functions like in libtp? Or should I
> > just keep using libtp and let tp-glib for CM only? Or any other idea?
> 
> I personally am not extremely unhappy with libtp; of course something 
> more GObject-like would be cool. But how will you deal with async D-Bus 
> calls?
> Second, if you want to have D-Bus signals connectable as GObject 
> signals, you'll have to register all of them when you create the object, 
> and this means that you'll also receive signals you might not be 
> interested about (dunno how big performance hit this would have). Unless 
> there is some secret internal hook in GObject that gets called when 
> g_signal_connect is called on an object (because in that case you could 
> use it to connect to the corresponding DBus signal only when needed).

Rob told me dbus-glib hooks for all signals anyway, telepathy clients
already wake up for each signal even if it's not connected.

Xavier.