Re: beagle xesam
"Arun Raghavan" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.dashboard.devel |
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On 17/12/2007, Debajyoti Bera <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So beagle-xesam-0.1 was also released yesterday. Congratulations and > > > thanks. Would you mind giving a few details on what exactly it does now ? > > > How can it be used ? Where does it sit between beagle and xesam (pun > > > intended) ? Where does it go from here ? > ... > > Basically the adaptor as it stands allows Xesam clients to connect to > > it, and pass it queries. The adaptor acts as a translator between the > > Xesam API and Beagle's native API. It takes Xesam queries over DBus, > > passes them on to beagled, and the hits back in Xesam-ese. > > Beagle-Xesam largely conforms to the latest (RC1) Xesam spec. > ... > > To summarize, the basic adaptor is functional as it stands. The path > > ahead should become clearer as clients that use the spec arise. > > Ok so its functional and conforms to the spec. Is there any possibility of > bringing the adapter into beagled itself ? Yes to the first, and to a pretty large extent for the second. It /is/ possible to bring it into beagled and run as a separate thread. My opinion is that this should be deferred till we have a few more clients to put the code through it's paces. Best, -- Arun Raghavan (http://nemesis.accosted.net) v2sw5Chw4+5ln4pr6$OFck2ma4+9u8w3+1!m?l7+9GSCKi056 e6+9i4b8/9HTAen4+5g4/8APa2Xs8r1/2p5-8 hackerkey.com