DM communication standard

[Havoc Pennington]

On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 16:13, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> 
> as for d-bus ... yeah, i wanted to do this originally as well. but havoc
> didn't seem to be overly-excited about the idea and suggested staying
> with a separate control protocol - dunno if he still stands to this
> view.

Hmm, I don't remember the conversation or what I meant at that time. ;-)
I don't see offhand a reason dbus wouldn't work - you would use the
_systemwide_ bus daemon for this to export a DisplayManager service.

>  and the second reason being, that kde did not arrive at the d-bus
> revolution, yet ...

Right, neither has GNOME, but in this case we're talking about the
systemwide daemon (what HAL etc. are using) rather than the DCOP
replacement (a separate issue, the per-session daemon)

Not that I'd encourage you to rewrite a ton of code to use D-BUS if it's
already working. Especially since D-BUS remains somewhat API unstable.

Havoc