DBus properties naming rules

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Tue Sep 8 09:04:38 PDT 2009


On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Aaron J. Seigo<aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
>
> i also don't see the necessity for more character variety in property names
> than in signals, methods or other identifiers in a D-Bus service. what's the
> use case, exactly, beyond preserving existing malformed services?

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20948

has my comments on the issue.  I will say though if someone made a
patch for dbus-glib which made it optionally export properties in the
suggested way (say keyed off an XML flag) I'd happily accept.   I'd
also suggest new dbus bindings do this by default.

But changing the spec is wrong, unless you also have a time machine.


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