[Sugar-devel] Fwd: _DBUS_APPLICATION_ID, _DBUS_UNIQUE_NAME, and _DBUS_OBJECT_PATH

[Marco]

This seems pretty similar to our x window -> dbus service mapping.

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> From: Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org>
> Date: 15 December 2011 15:44:52 GMT
> To: xdg at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: _DBUS_APPLICATION_ID, _DBUS_UNIQUE_NAME, and _DBUS_OBJECT_PATH
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In the GtkApplication/GNOME 3 integration work, we need effectively to
> tie together the application and windows it creates with the menu
> structure and actions exported over DBus by G(tk)Application.
> 
> Per Ryans' previous mail, an application ID is just a DBus name:
> http://developer.gnome.org/gio/unstable/GApplication.html#g-application-id-is-valid
> We have a patch for gtk+ to export this as a window property named
> _DBUS_APPLICATION_ID.  This complements the existing WM_CLASS window
> <-> .desktop file association.
> 
> Now we also need for non-unique applications to know the unique DBus
> name (e.g. :1.14).  That's the _DBUS_UNIQUE_NAME property.
> 
> Finally, _DBUS_OBJECT_PATH is typically just a substitution . for /; in
> practice we could just do this in various places, but it seems cleaner
> to export it too.
> 
> 
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