[maemo-developers] D-BUS service name confusion

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

I think the docs are not wrong, just misleading.
If you only specify the application name in the osso_initialize() function,
then you've got to use the "com.nokia.application_name" name in the
D-BUS service file.
If you prefer not to use the "com.nokia" prefix, then specify the FQDN
(in DNS name convention)
in either the D-BUS service file AND as parameter to osso_initialize
() function.

In fact I do use "com.nokia.xournal" in the D-BUS service file and
only "xournal" in the initialize function.
And it works.
The former version of my port used "org.anidel.xournal" and that was
the name I've used in either the
D-BUS service file AND the osso_initialize () function.

And I am going to switch back to "org.anidel.xournal" :)

--
Anidel

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Kimmo Hämäläinen
<kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 19:41 +0200, ext Axel Sommerfeldt wrote:
> ...
>> - The documentation of osso_initialize() is wrong/misleading.
> ...
>
> libosso.h says:
> * @param application The name of the application.
>  * This name forms the last part of the default (D-BUS) service name of the
>  * application. Note that the D-BUS service name will be
>  * 'com.nokia.application', where 'application' is the value you gave as the
>  * parameter. Note also that this argument must be identical to the
>  * X-Osso-Service value in the desktop file, or the D-BUS daemon will kill
>  * your application. If you do not want to use the default 'com.nokia' prefix,
>  * you must pass the whole D-Bus service name, e.g. 'org.maemo.my_app'.
>  * The only valid characters that the name may contain are letters a-z and
>  * the underscore '_'.
>
> Is it wrong?
>
> BR; Kimmo
>
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anidel