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Sean Middleditch wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 01:59, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi folks,
i'm completely new here and didn't yet understand what dbus's relly
for, so please excuse my probably naive question:
is it suited for notifying like "netdev came up" or "user XYZ has
logged in", so some application listening for such events could
do something, i.e. display an xmessage or write a mail ?
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Yes. It's absolutely ideal for these sorts of things, and it's fully
intended to be used for those sorts of things. Hotplug and udev on
Linux already uses D-BUS for sending hardware event notifications (HAL,
gnome-volume-manager, etc.) and it would be great to get more hardware
based apps to use it. For example, imagine if the X Server used HAL
(and, by extension, D-BUS) to automatically reconfigure new input
devices and so on while the server is running. Would be great. :)
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Coming back to those much requested examples (I'll just keep on pushing
;-):<br>
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wouldn't it be great to just have some tiny examples which show off
this feature?<br>
It should be possible to start some kind of small program which says
something like "plug or un-plug a USB device" and have it output a
message when this happens. Would be great for us newbies to get a feel
for the system.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
-Tako<br>
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