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diff --git a/libindicate/server.h b/libindicate/server.h index c327a13..f0e1569 100644 --- a/libindicate/server.h +++ b/libindicate/server.h @@ -186,6 +186,35 @@ void indicate_server_emit_indicator_removed (IndicateServer *server, guint id, c void indicate_server_emit_indicator_modified (IndicateServer *server, guint id, const gchar *property); void indicate_server_emit_server_display (IndicateServer *server); +/** + SECTION:server + @short_description: The representation of the application on DBus. + @stability: Unstable + @include: libindicate/server.h + + The server object is the object that provides the functions on + to DBus for other applications to call. It does this by implementing + the DBus indicator spec, but it also allows for subclassing so that + subclasses don't have to worry about the DBus-isms as much as + the functionality that they're trying to express. + + For simple applications there is limited need to set anything + more than the desktop file and the type of the server using + indicate_server_set_desktop_file() and indicate_server_set_type(). + Each of these function sets the respective value and expresses + it in a way that other applications on the bus can read it. + + More advanced applications might find the need to subclass the + #IndicateServer object and make their own. This is likely the + case where applications have complex data stores that they don't + want to turn into a large set of #GObjects that can take up a + significant amount of memory in the program. + + In general, it is recommended that application authors go with + the high memory path first, and then optimize by implementing + their server on a second pass. +*/ + G_END_DECLS #endif /* INDICATE_SERVER_H_INCLUDED__ */ |