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Subject: Re: Automatic bluetooth device initialization
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Hi Maksim,

> while i appreciate your effort in this area, i'm skeptical that d-bus 
> and/or whatever api will solve this problem. i think, instead of 
> introducing yet another compatibility layer that sits on top of native 
> api, everyone would be much better off if native api was the same. what 
> would solve this problem, imo, is the standard (something like posix) 
> that would define api etc.

I don't really like D-Bus, but it will be the way to go for a general
API for the desktop. It has multiple language bindings already and our
goal is to make it totally generic (no BlueZ specific definitions).

Regards

Marcel