D-Bus and other Linux desktop integration improvements

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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:

1. Be sure to pick out your favourite coffee mug.
2. Find some music that will keep you up all night (trance, happy hardcore, etc... check out www.di.fm).
3. TBA

Project Contributor(s)

• TBA

Project Details

• Shaver passed along this link to DBuzilla, which would be good to investigate.

Project News

Status

September 27th, 2006

Man and Mohamed are setting up a server to compile our work on. We're reading and playing around with some D-Bus client/server stuff before we try to find where it fits in Mozilla. Slow start so far. =(

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