Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up late, to work, poked mail. Call with Florian. Hacked away a little, pushed some simple prototype dbus bindings to http://www.gnome.org/~michael/git/dbind.git/ that allows more friendly use of structured types, for a method of type: struct TeamName { string id; string name; string url; } array>TeamName< GetTeamList();
you can do:

typedef struct { char *name, *id, *url; } TeamSpace;
...
    GPtrArray *spaces;
    dbind_context_method_call (ctx, NULL, DESKICE_PATH, DESKICE_NAMESPACE,
                               "GetTeamList", &error,
                               "=>a(sss)", &spaces);
    for (i = 0; i < spaces->len; i++) {
        TeamSpace *space = spaces->pdata[i];
        fprintf (stderr, "\t%d: %s, %s, %s\n", i, space->name, space->id, space->url);
    }

Type informed marshalling & walking of the C ABI is rather nice, simple & abstract. Unfortunately, it could work a lot more efficiently (cf. ORBit2), and the impl. of the various dbus message iterators appears to leave scope for substantial improvement. Also, clearly the forward/backwards compatibility possibilities of having 2 lots of type info are not exploited, but at least I can live with myself using the API.
Implemented a type-drive deep free, and hacked this all into deskice, starting to look quite sweet. Dinner with the parents.
More deskice hackery in the evening; read the gtkfilechooser widget, 12k lines - grief, it seems a lot of things got shoved into there. Worked late, caught up with Federico.

Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2008-03-03: Monday