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Re: scripting DBus services



Le mardi 22 janvier 2013 à 14:32 +0000, Neil Williams a écrit : 
> Even with dbus-send, what may have been a 30 character one-line call in
> shell becomes a 120 character complex call with quoting issues and
> return-type-unmangling.
> 
> It depends on the meaning of "scriptable" - with the strict meaning of
> the kind of shell scripts to which sysadmins have become familiar, then
> DBus really isn't scriptable except for v.simple operations. 

This is true, but it merely calls for a simpler wrapper easily usable
from scripts or the command line, much in the way zenity does with GTK+.

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