On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 14:15 -0400, Robert Xu wrote: > Hi all, > > Given the fact that I am relatively new at this stuff, forgive me if I > am asking very noobish questions... > > I am trying to figure out how to implement the Register/Unregister > functions and the SecretAgent interfaces.
http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/api/09/ref-migrating.html has more information on the architecture changes in 0.9. One big one is that the session applets (knetworkmanager, nm-applet, etc) no longer store whole connections; they only store secrets. Thus they become secret agents instead of full settings storage services. They no longer need to advertise a D-Bus service. > - Where would I implement Register/Unregister? When the program starts > up/closes down? Yes, whenever the thing that's going to respond to secrets requests (ie, the secret agent) starts up and shuts down. > - (what c++ call do I make to do that? >>;) Probably the Qt D-Bus bindings, which I think is what the old KDE stuff used. > - For SecretAgent interfaces, KNetworkManager has a storage file that > handles this stuff. Should this all be depreciated for NM's new > handling? Not necessarily; you'd still need to store secrets somewhere, and the storage files are probably as good as any. But you wont' need to store whole connections; just secrets. So at a minimum you'll need to store the secret itself, the key name of the secret (ie 'psk' or 'password' or whatever), and the UUID of the connection the secret is for. > - (again, how do you call the functions in c++? relatively new to > dbus calling in c++ >>;) Usually with Qt/KDE you'd use the Qt D-Bus bindings to do anything D-Bus related. Unfortunately I don't know much about those, but others on this list (like Will Stephenson and Eckhart Woerner) know the Qt/KDE side of things. Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list