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D-BUS is a message bus system, rather like Appletalk, that allows applications to send messages to one another. The applications all run on the same CPU. If you look at the [[Python]] source code for [[Sugar]] you can see how D-BUS is being used.
D-BUS is a message bus system, rather like Appletalk, that allows applications to send messages to one another. The applications all run on the same CPU. If you look at the [[Python]] source code for [[Sugar]] you can see how D-BUS is being used.


== D-BUS Services on the OLPC-XO ==
Pages of Interest on D-BUS:


* [[NetworkManager]]
* [[Activity DBus API]]
* [[Activity DBus API]]
* [[Presence Service DBus API]] Including the Telepathy API
* [[Presence Service DBus API]] Including the Telepathy API
* Telepathy Connection Manager
* Telepathy StreamEngine
* Clipboard Service
* Hardware Manager Service
* Activity Registry Service
* Object Type Registry Service
* Sugar Console Service


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 06:06, 29 August 2007

D-BUS is a message bus system, rather like Appletalk, that allows applications to send messages to one another. The applications all run on the same CPU. If you look at the Python source code for Sugar you can see how D-BUS is being used.

D-BUS Services on the OLPC-XO

References

D-BUS website.