[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: D-BUS question

[From: Ross Burton]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 19:55 +0300, Dionisis Petromanolakis wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> i want to make an application running on a normal desktop computer to
> communicate with maemo. Has anyone done something similar, are there
> any sources, tutorial available that could help me?
>  
> Can i do this using D-BUS or i have to do it through normal unix
> sockets? I ve read about D-BUS and everywhere says that it is created
> for applications placed in the same computer. All the sample code i
> can find is about communication on a single computer, but in the site
> of d-bus it says that it can also be used for application that are not
> in the same machine.

You can do D-Bus over TCP, but it's not advised.  You'd be better
creating your own protocol, or re-using an existing one.

Ross

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