On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 23:08:12 +0100 Joel Klinghed <the...@spawned.biz> said:

> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:51:27 +1100
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 14:17:03 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> > <barbi...@profusion.mobi> said:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Carsten Haitzler
> > > <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:22:13 +0100 Joel Klinghed
> > > > <the...@spawned.biz> said:
> > > >
> > > >> Hi.
> > > >>
> > > >> The attached patch adds back some options I missed in the new
> > > >> enlightenment_remote, namely:
> > > >> -desks-get, -desktop-bg-add, -desktop-bg-del and
> > > >> -desktop-bg-list.
> > > >>
> > > >> For this I added:
> > > >> org.enlightenment.wm.Desktop.GetVirtualCount
> > > >> org.enlightenment.wm.Desktop.Background.Add
> > > >> org.enlightenment.wm.Desktop.Background.Del
> > > >> org.enlightenment.wm.Desktop.Background.List
> > > >
> > > > don't mean to discourage.. but this has been aired on this list a
> > > > few times now... these - they should go into a module that
> > > > extends e's dbus calls - not into core. we didn't get rid of
> > > > e_ipc_handlers.h just to have it all come back as dbus instead.
> > > > extra modules to extend the dbus calls - load them if u want the
> > > > extra dbus calls. :)
> > > 
> > > And as Rasterman already said in couple of places, to avoid
> > > exponential grow in number of modules just to handle dbus, we'd like
> > > to see a patch that converts e/src/modules/msgbus_lang to a more
> > > generic dbus helpers. At least the core calls could be added there
> > > without the need to create another module. (ie: just mv msgbus_lang
> > > to msgbus and add your stuff there)
> > 
> > yeah. collect them together. not 1 module per call. like
> > "msgbus-extras" for a whole lot of extra calls that are non-core but
> > generally very useful - maybe a "msgbus-hacker" for stuff to twiddle
> > deep down things that very few would ever want etc. etc.
> > 
> 
> Something along the lines of attached then?

awesome! i know i've been a little bitchy about this... but you hit the nail on
the head wonderfully here. just right! kudos for doing that
 
> Just named the new module msgbus, it includes old msgbus_lang and the
> four functions I wanted. The patch does remove all references to
> msgbus_lang but does not actually remove the files - also, I could not
> figure out how to add a binary file to the patch in a nice way, so copy
> msgbus_lang/e-module-msgbus_lang.edj to msgbus/e-module-msgbus.edj for
> the module icon.

sure! i'll put it in now and do the needed things. thanks! now you are happy,
and i am happy.. and hopefully everyone else too! :) and you made a good step
in making that "throw in all those misc extra dbus calls here" module so
there's no more bitching about it! :)

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