[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar-toolkit] Handle DBUS tubes in the activity telepathy client, part of OLPC #10738

[Sascha Silbe]

Excerpts from Simon Schampijer's message of Mon May 30 14:41:59 +0200 2011:

> One part has to claim the interest into the dbus channels, either the 
> Shell or the Activity. Before my patch sharing with dbus tubes did work, 
> since the shell claimed that they would handle the channels, but this 
> had the side effect of ghost invitations. Now I changed the code that 
> the shell only approves invitations and the activity is responsible to 
> handle/claim the channels they are interested in. Etoys (currently still 
> using the presence service) will need to make the same, create a Handler 
> that claims the channels Etoys is interested in [2].

OK, thanks, this makes things a little clearer, though there are still
one question I can't answer myself yet:

Do we need to change something in sugar-presence-service to make
activities that still rely on it (like EToys) work after your patches?
(we'll drop sugar-presence-service in 0.94, but not in 0.92.x)

There was another question I was going to ask re. Etoys compatibility,
but I noticed it's part of Glucose (etoys) / Fructose (Etoys), so we can
simply assume that matching versions of sugar-toolkit resp. Etoys will
be installed. We should point out the exact version relationships in
the Release Notes, of course.

I don't want to block these patches any further, so in the hope that
you'll write the Release Notes [1] entry explaining what non-Python
activity authors need to change I give my:

Acked-By: Sascha Silbe <silbe at activitycentral.com>

Your patches change the API, but AIUI there's no reasonable alternative.

Sascha

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.92/Notes
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