Re: Unable to register dbus method

[Lluís]

Michael Albinus writes:

> Lluís <address@hidden> writes:
>> Hi,

> Hi Lluís,

>> After getting a working implementation for providing GNOME Shell's calendar
>> widget with info from org-mode events, it looks like this suddenly stopped
>> working:
>> 
>> The callback never gets invoked, while "dbus-monitor" shows a method call is
>> actually sent by the widget, but only the evolution server responds to it:
>> 
>> Is it maybe that evolution registered for that method first and thus further
>> registrations simply take no effect?

> Maybe. Or Evolution has replaced your registration by its own. D-Bus
> life is hard.

> Note, that you cannot register for just one method; you can register
> only for a whole service. `dbus-register-method' does it silently for
> you.

> Install d-feet (very useful anyway!), and check, which application has
> registered for the service org.gnome.Shell.CalendarServer.

> In order to bring your application in front of the service, you could
> use `dbus-register-service' with the `:replace-existing' flag.

Aha! The `:replace-existing' did the trick and it's now working again.

Does this mean I should resend the method invocation through DBus to whomever is
not the "primary owner"? Sorry for the DBus-centric questions.


Thanks a lot,
  Lluis

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