On 03/08/2016 09:52 PM, deloptes wrote:
> Hi
>
> The context to my questions is the project I started about integrating
> syncevolution in TDE.
> I finished the basic plugin part and would like to write the platform part,
> which seems to use dbus from within the plugin to provide password
> read/write in the tdewallet.
>
> 1. Question
> what would be the best place to start reading about using dbus from within
> trinity? What is the preferred library to use for the future - it says
> dbus-1-tqt is qt4 bindings backport?
> I guess the dbus-tqt should serve my needs as I'm targeting the TDE wallet,
> but still I would appreciate some advise.
>
> http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/dbus-tqt/
> http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/dbus-1-tqt/
> http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/kdbusnotification/
>
> 2. Question
> For Calendar/Todo/Memo and Addressbook we hit some issue in syncevolution
> that child sends via dbus the final sync report message to the parent but
> the return message does not result in the defined callback and both parent
> and child are stuck. Patrick Ohly from Syncevolution is looking into it but
> I think asking here is worth in this case.
> Are you aware of some side effects in DBus context when used in Trinity?
> Are there some recommendations - examples, application code?
>
> thanks in advance
>
Hi Deloptes,
sorry for the late reply but I was not on TDE all day and I wanted to check something before replying.
TDE is basically DCOP based, being born as a fork of KDE 3.5. Anyhow dbus-tqt and dbus-1-tqt add support for dbus
application. To be honest I never delved into it at all, since they were already there when I discovered/joined TDE.
dbus-tqt provides dbus support, dbus-1-tqt provides binding for TQT (whatever that means, I am just referring to the
package description in Debian) and kdbusnotification is a small tray app that displays dbus notifications.
In addition to the git URLs you mentioned, you can probably read on line about dbus, such as:
https://dbus.freedesktop.org/
https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-tutorial.html
https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html
Regarding question 2, I have no idea. From the description it looks like some gets stuck, perhaps some locking problem
(I am assuming there is some sort of synchronization mechanism in dbus :-) ).
Could be in syncevolution or in the dbus implementation provided in Trinity. Sorry for not being of more help here.
Cheers
Michele
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