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[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

What should actors that don't have a .desktop file use as their actor
URI? Currently we use application://$desktop_file_id which is very nice
to wrok with because one can do
g_desktop_app_info_new($desktop_file_id).

I propose we define a similar scheme in our API docs where services and
daemons without .desktop files can use the basename of their DBus
.service file instead and put that in a dbus:// URI scheme ala
dbus://$dbus_service_id.

Consider the example of the Ubuntu One syncdamon. The DBus service files
are normally stored in /usr/share/dbus-1/services/ and it has indeed
com.ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.service stored there. This daemon would then
have actor URI dbus://com.ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.service.

This is useful because it allows me to obtain both the executable name
of the daemon process as well as the DBus name it claims. Together with
the service file this gives me 3 pieces of crucial metadata on the
actor.

** Affects: zeitgeist
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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URI scheme for actors without a .desktop file
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683847
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Bug description:
What should actors that don't have a .desktop file use as their actor URI? Currently we use application://$desktop_file_id which is very nice to wrok with because one can do g_desktop_app_info_new($desktop_file_id).

I propose we define a similar scheme in our API docs where services and daemons without .desktop files can use the basename of their DBus .service file instead and put that in a dbus:// URI scheme ala dbus://$dbus_service_id. 

Consider the example of the Ubuntu One syncdamon. The DBus service files are normally stored in /usr/share/dbus-1/services/ and it has indeed com.ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.service stored there. This daemon would then have actor URI dbus://com.ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.service.

This is useful because it allows me to obtain both the executable name of the daemon process as well as the DBus name it claims. Together with the service file this gives me 3 pieces of crucial metadata on the actor.