Please standardize Screen saver DBus interfaces

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Thu May 21 01:42:13 PDT 2009


Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
>On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi at kde.org> wrote:
>> generally, also feel quite a dislike for this d-bus mania which is
>> usually justified with phrases equivalent to "x11 is fubared". fix it
>> instead of re-inventing the wheel just because it seems simpler.
>
>You still need a wrapper as a lot of apps are portable and neither OSX
>nor Windows have/support Xlib (talking to their screensavers is one
>thing, being able to compile and link is another).

That's a problem for the toolkit to solve. We don't have to solve this 
problem at the XDG level.

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