Hello, could you please describe a use case where such an API could be useful outside the already existing ambience creator/changer? I can't actually imagine one except the colorset change notification but if I understand correctly Silica's Theme object already contains current ambience colors. I understand that although as for now Ambience consists of wallpaper and ringtone only, it can be changed in future but in my opinion the corresponding APIs should follow such a change.
Cheers Dmitriy Purgin 2014-07-22 23:19 GMT+06:00 <sfietkonstan...@free.fr>: > Hello list, > > Following what has been decided during today's Sailfish OSS meeting, I would > like to open a first discussion about internal API to be provided for > developers to take advantages of all the capabilities of Sailfish OS. > > One of the specific capabilities of Sailfish OS is the ambience system. It's > a profile system that is extended to changing the whole phone (currently > wallpaper + sounds). > > Accessing this feature is currently done via a QML module > (Sailfish.Ambience), that is only usable from privileged applications. It can > also be accessed via an userspace daemon, *ambienced*, that provides a DBus > API accessible through com.jolla.ambienced. > > This API is quite limited as it only allows setting an ambience from an image. > > I can understand that allowing the QML module to be used might cause > problems, either with API breakage, or with security, since the Ambience db > is privileged for a reason. In the other hand, the DBus API is safer: an API > change will only trigger a runtime error, and the API can be made to only > leak minimal data for the developer. That's why I'm asking to extend this API > to allow developers to take advantage of Ambiences. > > I would like to discuss with you about the API the developers want to see for > Ambience, and what sailors can provide. What I expect personally as a basis > would be > - Setting an ambience (already existing) > - Getting the list of favourited ambiences (name + image path) > > Some more advanced API can be welcomed too > - Getting a favourited ambience highlight colors > - Favouriting / unfavouriting an ambience > > TJC post is here: > https://together.jolla.com/question/51602/api-discussion-ambience-dbus-api/ > It is a wiki and will be used to log the final APIs when a concensus has been > reached, to have a basic documentation for devs, and a todolist for sailors. > > Feel free to elaborate on this topic, propose more APIs or detail those I > proposed (the best would be to provide a DBus introspect XML file). You are > also free to post a new thread on ML about other APIs you want to see from > Jolla. > > Regards, > Lucien > > PS: link for today's meeting minutes: > http://merproject.org/meetings/mer-meeting/2014/mer-meeting.2014-07-22-10.03.html > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org _______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org
