xfrun and dbus

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Fri Mar 10 13:12:18 CET 2006


Jani Monoses wrote:
>>xfrun4 should link with D-BUS, and use dbus-send as fallback. See
>>exo_url_show() for details about how to invoke dbus-send so it reports
>>success/failure (it's rather buggy).
> 
> I think it's simpler to just fallback to current dialog if calling dbus 
> through the lib fails. I don't know why that would fail and dbus-send 
> succeed, so in most cases will probably be extra overhead and making the
> current dialog a fallback of a fallback :)

Fallback = if libdbus is not available. This way xfrun4 can still use
other implementations of org.xfce.RunDialog (i.e. in xffm or Thunar). On
the other hand, this is less important, as Thunar will probably also be
built w/o D-BUS then.

> Jani

Benedikt



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