Re: [java-gnome-hackers] libappindicator and libindicate support

[Serkan K. <se...@ge...>]

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On 28-05-2010 05:00, Francisco Ortiz wrote:
> 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:
Great, well done. Feel free to send a bundle against mainline.
> 
> 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?
In any case, even if the dependencies are not checked for other distros
it would be a problem in build stage because java-gnome currently
doesn't support optional dependencies. By the way is this library going
to stay being Ubuntu specific.
> 
> - 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?
This package name generation is java-gnome specific, you can leave it to
default. That bug is probably about exported dbus objects which we don't
care at bindings level.

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Sincerely,
Serkan KABA
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