Get on D-BUS today!

rickxbx

http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus


D-BUS

D-BUS is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another.

D-BUS supplies both a system daemon (for events such as "new hardware device added" or "printer queue changed") and a per-user-login-session daemon (for general IPC needs among user applications). Also, the message bus is built on top of a general one-to-one message passing framework, which can be used by any two apps to communicate directly (without going through the message bus daemon).

The D-BUS API isn't finished yet, and the design is by no means set in stone. One of our main goals is for lots of projects to use it, so if you wouldn't use it, by all means mail us and say why - design, licensing, indentation style, we would rather know than not know.

D-BUS' only *required* dependency is an XML parser (either libxml or expat). D-BUS includes GLib, Qt, Python and .NET APIs to the D-BUS system, if you want to build those. The list of projects using D-BUS is growing and they provide a wealth of examples of using the various APIs to learn from.

Trying out D-BUS in sample applications is encouraged - we want to get it widely used and tested. It should be working pretty well these days, and when it isn't bug reports are very welcome.

Get on D-BUS today!

zhllg

在用了
utopia

wolf0403

D-Bus 已经成为新桌面发行版的基础部件之一。Hotplug、udev 和 Gnome 许多组件都是依赖 D-Bus 工作的。
不过前两天在 planet.fd.o 看到，现在 D-Bus 只剩下一个维护者了。