On October 7, 2009, PierreL wrote: > > e.g. if the "nepomuk" source is requested, it would create > > a nepomuk source > > with perhaps { "available" => bool } as the data and > > update the source > > whenever the resources becomes available or not. > > So to do a check, before accessing Nepomuk.
correct. > I'm still not sure about the > order in which services are started in KDE or in which order it should be > started :-), which was one of my concerns here. you shouldn't make any assumptions about this. the order of services (including services autostarting only when needed, for example) may change or shift over time. we have tools to make such assumptions unnecessary, however :) > I'm not a expert on the Nepomuk server architecture but I see it registered > as a DBus service at org.kde.NepomukServer, the Nepomuk service manager > does have "bool isServiceAutostarted(QString service) & bool > isServiceInitialized(QString name)" if org.kde.NepomukServer is on the bus, then you know the service is alive and you can start using it. QtDBus lets you ask if a service is registered on the bus. what did you think about the DataEngine idea? :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
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