On 24/09/15 23:54, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On 24 September 2015 at 23:25, Boudhayan Gupta <bgu...@kde.org> wrote: >> The service we've implemented is called org.freedesktop.Screenshot >> (we're using the freedesktop namespace because we truly want the >> service to be DE or platform agnostic). > > Commendable spirit, but that's not how it works — we've been bitten by > this in the past already. Please, use org.kde.* for your DBus > interfaces, and *then* propose a org.freedesktop.* interface up for > discussion. Otherwise you'll have to start versioning your own methods > because any shared interface will likely not map to what you expose > right now.
Yes, this. It's great that you're proposing cross-desktop collaboration on how taking screenshots works, but please don't present something that has already been designed as a fait accompli. The way I see it is: * if you are a freedesktop.org subproject with a "branded" name (D-Bus, Telepathy, Tracker, etc.), you can use any name in the namespace of that "brand", e.g. the Telepathy developers can use o.fd.Telepathy.Anything without further discussion; * but generic "unbranded" names like o.fd.Screenshot should be discussed on xdg-list, regardless of who is implementing them. (It's probably also a good idea for new fd.o interfaces to have a versioned name, like o.fd.Screenshot1; see <http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-api-design.html> for some guidelines.) The dbus mailing list is mainly about how the D-Bus "plumbing" works, rather than the specifics of what people do with it. -- Simon McVittie Collabora Ltd. <http://www.collabora.com/> >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
