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[Oliver Falk <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I like the idea of having a dbus service, but I'm afraid I have no idea
about implementing a dbus service and not even a clue who could eventually
help here.

Sorry for the negative reply :-(

Oliver

On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 10:17 PM clime <clime7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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