[java-gnome-hackers] libappindicator and libindicate support

[Francisco O. <fr...@pu...>]

Hi everybody,

First of all I want to thank for the huge effort you are doing 
delivering java bindings for gnome.

I am developing a little java app just for fun and I am using the 
binding for libnotify provided for java-gnome project.

As an Ubuntu user I want my app to support the new indicators 
(complementing the lack of 'actions' support for ubuntu notification 
system) based on the Ayatana umbrella project , so I read the docs get a 
copy of java-gnome src from the ubuntu repository (didn't use bzr way, 
but is the next step)  and started hacking the bindings. After 3 days of 
work I have working bindings for libindicate 
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MessagingMenu/> and libappindicator 
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators>.

I want to share with you what i did (i read the style, hacking, and docs 
and i am in process to document all the API) and i have a couple of 
questions:

In configure (and in build/faster) I added the package dependencies 
under debian OS (shared with Ubuntu) but i think is not the best 
solution. The previous dependencies are Ubuntu specific, but I dont want 
to break the code of the project if you are not using Ubuntu. Even in 
Ubuntu I don't know if the libs are required.

- How should I handle optional libraries for optional bindings? Or maybe 
I need to implement some kind of fallback implementation?

- By default the generated code is under org.gnome.<libname> package but 
i dont know if its a valid package. I dont know the state I was 
inspecting the DBus messages and they are using org.ayatana or 
org.freedesktop namespaces, there is a ticket in the launchpad 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/libindicate/+bug/452165 regarding this. 
Suggestions?

Thanks in advance for the answers,

Regards

Fran