On 7/18/2009 10:23 PM, Ted Gould wrote:
I think that he is meaning only for Windows. At least I hope so. Please Bob correct me if I'm wrong there.
Well, yes and no. Of course I am thinking first of Windows and OSX, and how they should remain first-class citizens of the Inkscape environment, and not poor stepchildren.
-But- it will certainly happen often where Linux people will have enough GTK stuff to run Inkscape, but will -NOT- be running Gnome. Either a non-Gnome, or a non-recent Gnome, environment will lack dbus. A KDE environment may likely not have dbus running.
Also I'll have to make sure that a user level DBus daemon could provide the default session bus. Otherwise users would have to look for the interface on two separate buses (The session bus, or our own private bus if that's not running.)
I would be surprised if a dbus daemon would start up correctly if another were already running. If a root dbus daemon is running, then of course you don't need another one. We only would want to run one if it's not already there. It's like if you have an electric generator for your home lighting in case of a storm. Normally you would just use the power mains.
My plan was to have it be Unix only at first and add windows support when windows DBus has been hammered out a bit more. It may always take a little effort to get DBus running on Windows, so I doubt that this API will ever be the default on that platform, but it should work in native Windows eventually.
We have resisted for a long time the temptation to treat non-Unix boxes as limited-capability ports. An --ENORMOUS-- amount of work has been expended to prevent that from happening. Please let's not surrender now.
The problem doesn't really look that hard, though. We've seen worse. Remember the codepages? :-)
bob (ishmal)