Re: Novice gnome programmer

--- On Thu, 25/8/11, Ankur Sinha <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Ankur Sinha <[email protected]>
> Subject: [gnome-love] Novice gnome programmer
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, 25 August, 2011, 15:57
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to write a daemon which sends mpd "now playing"
> song names to
> Empathy. I've never programmed anything related to GNOME
> before and was
> hoping someone could throw me some hints. I've been reading
> the
> telepathy book and I've narrowed it down to
> "SimplePresence". Am I on
> the right track? Can someone please point me to a similar
> implementation
> which I could use as reference?
>

Hi Ankur,

I am not entirely sure what you want to achieve, I would invite you to consider if D-bus/python could be the technology for your project?

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus

http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/doc/tutorial.html

From a personal perspective, I have have achieved great deal of satisfaction, starting from an inexperienced position, using Python/DBus for my projects.

cheers,
Richard