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:
- 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
- Shaver passed along this link to DBuzilla, which would be good to investigate.
Project News
Status
October 6, 2006
Man continued looking through codes in DBuzilla to further understand the existing code.
October 4, 2006
Try to install XULRunner with no successes. Ask Michael Lau for help, well try again later.
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
