4 - System bus activation
8 Important for 1.0 GLib Bindings
11 - Test point-to-point mode
13 - Add support for getting sender
15 - format_version in the object info doesn't look like it's handled correctly. The creator
16 of the object info should specify some fixed number per struct version; the library
17 should handle only specific numbers it knows about. There's no assumption that all
18 numbers >= the given one are compatible. The idea is that new versions of the lib
19 can offer totally different object info structs, but old versions
22 Important for 1.0 Python bindings
27 - Fix removing of signals from the match tree
29 - Fix refcounting and userdata lifecycles
31 - Write a generic mainloop
36 - protocol version in each message is pretty silly
41 - revamp dbus-launch a bit,
42 see http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2006-October/005906.html
45 - clean up the creds issue on *BSD's in dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c.
46 They should work as is but we need to rearange it to make it
47 clearer which method is being used. configure.in should
48 be fixed up to make that decition.
50 - _dbus_connection_unref_unlocked() is essentially always broken because
51 the connection finalizer calls non-unlocked functions. One fix is to make
52 the finalizer run with the lock held, but since it calls out to the app that may
53 be pretty broken. More likely all the uses of unref_unlocked are just wrong.
55 - if the GUID is obtained only during authentication, not in the address,
56 we could still share the connection
58 - Allow a dbus_g_proxy_to_string()/g_object_to_string() that
59 would convert the proxy to an "IOR" and dbus_g_proxy_from_string()
60 that would decode; using these, dbus-glib users could avoid
61 DBusConnection entirely. Of course the same applies to other kinds
62 of binding. This would use dbus_connection_open()'s connection-sharing
63 feature to avoid massive proliferation of connections.
65 - DBusWatchList/TimeoutList duplicate a lot of code, as do
66 protected_change_watch/protected_change_timeout in dbus-connection.c
67 and dbus-server.c. This could all be mopped up, cut-and-paste
68 fixed, code size reduced.
70 - change .service files to allow Names=list in addition to Name=string
72 - The message bus internal code still says "service" for
73 "name", "base service" for "unique name", "activate" for
74 "start"; would be nice to clean up.
76 - Property list feature on message bus (list of properties associated
77 with a connection). May also include message matching rules
78 that involve the properties of the source or destination
81 - Disconnecting the remote end on invalid UTF-8 is probably not a good
82 idea. The definition of "valid" is slightly fuzzy. I think it might
83 be better to just silently "fix" the UTF-8, or perhaps return an error.
85 - build and install the Doxygen manual in Makefile when --enable-docs
87 - if you send the same message to multiple connections, the serial number
88 will only be right for one of them. Probably need to just write() the serial
89 number, rather than putting it in the DBusMessage, or something.
91 - perhaps the bus driver should have properties that reflect attributes
92 of the session, such as hostname, architecture, operating system,
93 etc. Could be useful for code that wants to special-case behavior
94 for a particular host or class of hosts, for example.
96 - currently the security policy stuff for messages to/from
97 the bus driver is kind of strange; basically it's hardcoded that
98 you can always talk to the driver, but the default config file
99 has rules for it anyway, or something. it's conceptually
100 screwy at the moment.
102 - when making a method call, if the call serial were globally unique,
103 we could forward the call serial along with any method calls made
104 as a result of the first method call, and allow reentrancy that was
105 strictly part of the call stack of said method call. But I don't
106 really see how to do this without making the user pass around the
107 call serial to all method calls all the time, or disallowing
110 If done post 1.0 will probably be an optional/ugly-API type
113 - I don't want to introduce DBusObject, but refcounting and object
114 data could still be factored out into an internal "base class"
117 - Keep convenience wrappers in sync with bus methods
119 - document the auth protocol as a set of states and transitions, and
120 then reimplement it in those terms
122 - recursive dispatch, see dbus_connection_dispatch()
124 - do we need per-display activation; if so I'd like to do this by setting a
125 "display ID" property on screen 0, with a GUID, and keying activation by
126 said GUID. Otherwise you get all kinds of unrobust
127 string/hostname-based mess. per-screen is then done by appending screen number
128 to the display. If displays have a deterministic ID like this, you can
129 do per-display by simply including GUID in the service name.
131 - optimization and profiling!
133 - Match rules aren't in the spec (probably a lot of methods on the bus
136 - the "break loader" and valid/invalid message tests are all disabled;
137 they need to be fixed and re-enabled with the new message args stuff.
138 I think I want to drop the .message files thing and just have code
139 that generates messages, more like the tests for
140 dbus-marshal-recursive.c (this is mostly done now, just needs some
143 - just before 1.0, try a HAVE_INT64=0 build and be sure it runs
145 - Windows port needs recursive mutexes
150 - look into supporting the concept of a "connection" generically
151 (what does this TODO item mean?)
153 - test/name-test should be named test/with-bus or something like that