This interfaceifies the extra functions that were on GDBusActionGroup
for dealing with platform data.
The two main benefits of doing this:
- no longer have to do a silly song and dance in GApplication to avoid
calling GDBusActionGroup API from non-dbus-aware code
- the interface can be reused by the action group exporter to avoid
ugly and unbindable hook callbacks
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665737
We provide a mechanism by which a 'platform' (eg: Gtk) can register some
hook functions to be called to collect platform-data at the point of
sending an outgoing action activation request and also to inform the
platform of this data on incoming requests (before and after dispatching
the actual request).
This can be used for forwarding timestamp and startup-notification
information (as is presently done in GApplication) but the before/after
hook could also be used for acquiring/releasing the Gdk lock or other
similar things.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665737
This was causing the following critical when running bloatpad twice:
GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_insert_internal: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed
Have one simple _get() API that returns the group immediately, in an
empty state. The group is initialised on the first attempt to interact
with it.
Leave a secret 'back door' for GApplication to do a blocking
initialisation.
There are no public 'exporter' objects, so don't allude to them
in the function names. At the same time, we want to make it clear
that these functions are D-Bus specific.
The new APIs are
g_action_group_dbus_export_start
g_action_group_dbus_export_query
g_action_group_dbus_export_stop
g_menu_model_dbus_export_start
g_menu_model_dbus_export_query
g_menu_model_dbus_export_stop
