[maemo-developers] D-BUS service name confusion

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Kimmo Hämäläinen
<kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 09:12 +0200, ext Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:
>> I think the docs are not wrong, just misleading.
>
> Ok, I'm waiting for your patch :)
>

If this is a confirmation that what I've understood is correct, you
will have it :)

PS: unless you're talking about the Xournal patch :-p :-p

--
Anidel

> BR; Kimmo
>
>> 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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>>
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>



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anidel