Multiple verve-plugins in different panels

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:22:34 +0200, Nikolas Arend wrote:

> Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:21:19 +0200, Nikolas Arend wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:52:21 +0200, Nikolas Arend wrote:
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I just tried out another instance of the verve-plugin in a
> >>>> different panel (see post about verve-plugin and hidden panels).
> >>>> After removing it again, the plugin that remained (the first one)
> >>>> couldn't receive focus any more via verve-focus, which fails with
> >>>>
> >>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>>>   File "/usr/bin/verve-focus", line 48, in ?
> >>>>     dbus_interface = "org.xfce.RunDialog")
> >>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line
> >>>> 64, in __call__
> >>>>     reply_message = self._connection.send_with_reply_and_block
> >>>> (message, timeout)  File "dbus_bindings.pyx", line 395, in 
> >>>> dbus_bindings.Connection.send_with_reply_and_block
> >>>> dbus_bindings.DBusException: Message has only 1 arguments, but
> >>>> more were expected
> >>>>
> >>>> Removing the pluging and adding it again fixes the issue. If
> >>>> needed I'll file a bug report.
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> Sorry, I can't reproduce this error - is anyone else able to?
> >>>
> >>> My only guess would be that your D-BUS version has bugs. Which one
> >>> are you using?
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> dbus-0.50 on FC4. If it's only me, nevermind. I won't use multiple 
> >> instances of the verve plugin anyway and it's working well
> >> otherwise. I just reported it as it looked like it could be a bug.
> >> On the other hand, does it make sense to allow multiple instances
> >> of verve-plugin running? Using verve-focus, you can only focus one
> >> at a time anyway...
> >>     
> >
> > Just imagine a Xinerama setup with two screens, two panels and two
> > Verve instances - yes, it sometimes makes sense to have more than
> > just one Verve instance running. 
> >
> >   
> Ok, you're right, didn't think of this.
> 
> > BTW, I now tweaked the code to allow newer Verve instances to gain
> > the ownership for org.xfce.Verve, so the last created instance
> > grabs the focus when verve-focus is executed.
> >   
> I just tried to compile the latest verve-plugin with dbus support and
> it seems that dbus 0.50 is too old:
> 
> verve-dbus-service.c: In function ‘verve_dbus_service_init’:
> verve-dbus-service.c:139: error: ‘DBUS_NAME_FLAG_ALLOW_REPLACEMENT’ 
> undeclared (first use in this function)
> verve-dbus-service.c:139: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
> reported only once
> verve-dbus-service.c:139: error: for each function it appears in.)
> make[3]: *** [xfce4_verve_plugin-verve-dbus-service.o] Error 1
> 
> I don't know when this constant was introduced, but it seems it's not
> in 0.50. Can this be helped? I'm reluctant to install a newer version
> of dbus atm. since there are many other packages on my FC4 that
> depend on libdbus-1.so.1, but would like to have verve-plugin with
> dbus-support.

Sure, I can workaround this, by checking the D-BUS version, I guess.
I'll work on this later. Thanks for the report.

- Jannis