dbus-qt

Frederick Alexander Thomssen ml-fedora at fathomssen.de
Sat Mar 5 17:56:30 UTC 2005


On Saturday 05 March 2005 18:51, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:21 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> >On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 11:37, Frederick Alexander Thomssen wrote:
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> once dbus-qt was removed from fedora because there was no use for it.
> >> but now kde 3.4 supports dbus-qt for the media:/ protocol which
> >> indicated if a new device was connected. so there now is a use for
> >> dbus-qt so i think it ought to be included.
> >
> >Does an app in fedora core require it?  When you say the media:/
> >protocol indicates if a new device is connected, does it listen to dbus
> >signals or does it propagate them itself?  For device connection there
> >is already a freedesktop standard for propagating device additions and
> >removals called HAL.  Also does kde 3.4 compile against the qt-dbus
> >bindings in CVS?  So far the qt bindings in CVS have not been passing a
> >dist check on my fedora box.  This may be a candidate for extras if I
> >can figure out how to split packages between extras and core when they
> >come from the same spec.  I also have no objection into getting into
> >core provided there is a real need.  I am hesitant to put it in if the
> >API is still in flux since the apps that use it and the version of dbus
> >we ship may get out of sync.
>
> It appears to use hal 0.4.x and dbus 0.23.x cf.
>
>  http://www.archivum.info/kde-core-devel@kde.org/2004-12/msg00290.html
>
> If the Qt bindings for D-BUS 0.30 is/gets in a usable state, we should
> look at writing a patch so it can speak to hal 0.5.x - it shouldn't be
> much work at all; updating the Qt D-bindings to the new D-BUS is the big
> thing that needs to work.
>
> David

well, just saw it in kdebase/config.log

configure:50348: checking for DBus
configure: 50362: /opt/kde/include/dbus/dbus.h
configure: 50362: /usr/include/dbus/dbus.h
configure: 50362: /usr/local/include/dbus/dbus.h
configure: 50362: /usr/include/dbus-1.0/dbus/dbus.h
taking that
configure: 50379: /opt/kde/include/dbus/dbus-arch-deps.h
configure: 50379: /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include/dbus/dbus-arch-deps.h
taking that
configure: 50401: /opt/kde/lib/libdbus-1.so
configure: 50401: /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so
taking that
configure:50417: result: 
headers /usr/include/dbus-1.0 /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include  libraries /usr/lib
configure:50430: checking for DBus-Qt bindings
configure: 50444: /opt/kde/include/dbus/connection.h
configure: 50444: /usr/include/dbus/connection.h
configure: 50444: /usr/local/include/dbus/connection.h
configure: 50444: /usr/include/dbus-1.0/dbus/connection.h
configure: 50444: /usr/local/include/dbus-1.0/dbus/connection.h
configure: 50471: /opt/kde/lib/libdbus-qt-1.so
configure: 50471: /usr/lib/libdbus-qt-1.so
configure: 50471: /usr/local/lib/libdbus-qt-1.so
configure:50491: result: searched but not found
configure:50501: checking if the HAL backend for media:/ sould be compiled
configure:50516: result: no

freddy
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Frederick Alexander Thomssen




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