compiz - May 2007 - [PATCH] Descriptions for dbus when plugin not loaded

Here is a quick patch for dbus to make it try to load the
metadata from a file if the plugin is not loaded.

I have tested it and it works fine, but I wanted to check to
see if you had something else in mind.
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On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 19:23 +0100, Mike Dransfield
wrote:
> Here is a quick patch for dbus to make it try to load the
> metadata from a file if the plugin is not loaded.
> 
> I have tested it and it works fine, but I wanted to check to
> see if you had something else in mind.
Yes, I think we should load/initialize and read the metadata from
plugins. Some minor changes need to be made to the plugin system before
we're able to load and initialize a plugin without activating it but it
should be easy to fix.

BTW, I'm not very interested in just returning the descriptions.
The GetPluginMetadata method should return an array of full meta data
documents. This needs to be supported by the dbus plugin before we can
remove plugin dependencies from the core.

- David