Accessing dbus (KDE Application)

[Michael Hall]

There's an open bug report for this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1590679

There is work going on to implement a snappy interface that will allow
apps like kdenlive to claim their own dbus service name.

Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com

On 09/10/2016 10:43 AM, Jean-Baptiste Mardelle wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Working on a snap package for Kdenlive (video editing app based on KDE
> frameworks), i encounter one problem with restrictions of the "strict"
> mode.
> My snap package runs fine when using devmode, but crashes on startup
> when using the strict mode with the following message:
> "Couldn't register name 'org.kde.kdenlive-17772' with DBUS - another
> process owns it already!"
> 
> Kdenlive (and many KDE Applications) create a DBUS entry on startup:
> org.kde.appName-$PID
> 
> In our case, we use dbus to inform the main application of the progress
> of video rendering tasks, which are performed by a command line
> application.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to allow my application to register and
> access its dbus service ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jean-Baptiste Mardelle
> Kdenlive maintainer
>