API for other applications

[Lekensteyn]

bumblebee-ui reads from config files directly, checking existence of some files, etc.

We should add an API which provides:

• check whether the X server is available
• retrieve configuration values
• (for the future) if the card is enabled
• ...

Something event-based would be great. Maybe dbus or something?

[Samsagax]

I don't see a way to do an event-based thing on bash. But that will really be great

[glyptostroboides]

Maybe possible in python ?

[Samsagax]

we can wrap around some bash scripts and functions. Python AFAIK can execute bash scripts with arguments and capture output.

[Lekensteyn]

Before implementing, we need a list of features that must be available in the API.

[Samsagax]

• Check for daemon present

- (maybe) driver used

[glyptostroboides]

The indicator script need to know :
-if the card is on or off : later with acpi_call
-if bumblebee is in use or not
-driver can also be displayed on mouse over the active icon

[glyptostroboides]

To know if the card is on a simple will be really helpfull to remove the check of existing /tmp/.X%s-lock file made by the indicator every two seconds : Please add this somewhere :
dbus-send --session --dest=org.bumblebee.indicator /org/bumblebee/indicator org.bumblebee.indicator.BumblebeeStarted
dbus-send --session --dest=org.bumblebee.indicator /org/bumblebee/indicator org.bumblebee.indicator.BumblebeeStopped

[glyptostroboides]

For now this call will help to now if the server is launched and later an other call could be made depending on the state of the nvidia card.

[ArchangeGabriel]

Task: Devs people around there, please give us a list of things you would like to have in this API.

[ArchangeGabriel]

Maybe dbus #39 on bumblebee 3.0 ?

[Lekensteyn]

And issue #31, since it's tracked in the new tracker I'm closing this one.