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== Project Leader(s) == | == Project Leader(s) == | ||
Revision as of 00:13, 27 September 2006
Contents
Project Name
D-Bus and other Linux desktop integration improvements
Project Description
Various Linux distributors have patches in their Firefox packages that add bits and pieces of Linux integration, and we'd like to see even more available. One particular area of interest is controlling the browser via d-bus, and exposing dbus events to the application and extensions.
Introduction to D-Bus:
- http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7744.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-BUS
- http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus
- http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/api/html/group__DBusConnection.html
- Using the D-Bus C API
- Get on D-BUS
- Connect desktop apps using D-BUS
Project Leader(s)
Project Leader: Mohamed Attar, Man Choi Kwan
Please contact Mohamed if you are interested in joining this project. Make sure you have done the following first:
- Be sure to pick out your favourite coffee mug.
- Find some music that will keep you up all night (trance, happy hardcore, etc... check out www.di.fm).
- TBA
Project Contributor(s)
- TBA
Project Details
TBA
Project News
Status
September 15th, 2006
Today Man Choi Kwan and Mohamed Attar joined this project. We're just getting introduced to this topic and will be doing some research over the weekend.
To Do:
- Ensure all group members have a machine they can run linux on with X11.
- Research on D-Bus. Get some code and research to share with the group.
- Find some Mozilla/Linux Gurus to bother. =P
