Re: DBus Framework (Was: ANN: BatMon 0.3)

[David Chisnall]

On 7 Jul 2008, at 16:00, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> David Chisnall wrote:
> > On 7 Jul 2008, at 15:07, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> > > David Chisnall wrote:
> > > > On 6 Jul 2008, at 23:40, Riccardo wrote:
> > > > > Currently, it works only on Linux with ACPI with 2.6 kernels  
> > > > > since it reads files in /proc and relies on that format. It runs  
> > > > > also on FreeBSD thanks to patches by Chris Vetter.
> > > > I've written code in SystemConfig in the Étoilé repository for  
> > > > getting power status on FreeBSD and OpenBSD as well.  If this is  
> > > > of any use to you, feel free to steal it - it's BSDL.
> > >
> > > Didn't Andreas Schick write an Etoile menulet that used DBus to  
> > > determine the battery status? It used to be available at www.andreasheppel.de/software.html
> > >
> > > Which reminds me, how is the DBus integration coming along?
> > The code to date is in the Étoilé code review system:
> > http://review.etoileos.com/r/14
> > Feel free to add comments.  I am currently about half way through  
> > reviewing it.
>
> Great reviewing facility you have there and nice code too. I was  
> hoping for some additional ideas that would go beyond my original  
> outline, but at least it fills most of the open spaces I left there.  
> Which alone was quite some work. Do you have examples of code that  
> could be handled with that implementation? Is it for example  
> sufficient for the DBus bits already used in Etoile?

The GNUstep repository has been added to the system, so feel free to  
use it for reviewing GNUstep patches too.  So far most of the work has  
been on getting the basic DBUS implementation working and tested.   
Closer DO integration and some example uses are the objectives for the  
second phase.

David