[mpris] [RFC] MPRIS2 Release Candidate

[Ian Monroe]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Mirsal Ennaime
<mirsal.ennaime at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello and sorry for the late reply:
>
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Lennart Poettering
> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
>> A few comments:
>>
>> - please use the recently standardized property change signals when
>>  properties change. Don't cook your own signals.
>
> This definitely should be done, but i don't think it is a good idea to
> switch to it now, as it is not yet ubiquitous in bindings and it would
> require to completely rethink a large part of the spec.
>
> IMHO, we should stick with the legacy signals in v2 and use
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged signal in v3 (along
> with other disruptive changes you are suggesting)

Planning on a v3 already seems rather ridiculous. We are in a position
now to make radical changes.

I'm not arguing for using PropertiesChanged signals (they seem to be
really really new), but if you think they are a good idea then your
position doesn't make much sense.

Ian