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On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 21:23, Sheogorath
<ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello fellow fans,
>
> Last Friday I was looking at the progress we made with on evolution,
> the mail client.[1] And of course now other Gnome applications look at
> these changes and we will most likely end up with a bunch of libravatar
> implementations all over the place in Gnome and most of them will
> probably be incomplete.
>
> Therefore I started a little Proof of Concept application that would
> take care of the libravatar implementation and boil it down to a dbus
> IPC call that would simply give you a local avatar file.[2]
>
> For now you get the path to the file, due to NodeJS limitations that
> doesn't allow you to pass file handles through dbus. But a proper
> implementation could hand over file handles and this way even allow
> sandboxed applications to access them.
>
> Therefore I have 2 things I want to know from you:
>
> 1. What do you think about the general idea? Does it make sense to
> proceed on this or is it a waste of time and applications should
> implement it themselves using the existing libraries?
> 2. What would be the proper way to implement a dbus interface here?
> It's my first project that uses dbus and I'm not really used to all
> concepts etc.
>
> For your information: Of course the NodeJS implementation is not great
> and brings a bunch of problems with it. Therefore for a future
> implementation I would like to go for rust instead. All guidance and
> help is very welcome as I'm not a rust developer yet.

I think it is a very good idea but I can't really help you on the
technical side of things as I don't have an experience with dbus.

But yeah, sounds interesting!
clime

>
> Alternatively I could also imagine getting this implementation
> integrated in some other service, but I'm not sure which one would be a
> good candicate. Gnome contacts maybe?
>
> [1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/issues/793
> [2]: https://git.shivering-isles.com/shivering-isles/libravatar-dbus
> --
> Signed
> Sheogorath
>
> OpenPGP: https://shivering-isles.com/openpgp/0xFCB98C2A3EC6F601.txt
>
>
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