Code review comment for lp:~muktupavels/libappindicator/create-as-service

> On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 14:18 +0000, Alberts Muktupāvels wrote:
>
> > > I'm a little confused, why do we want Items to register a name on the bus?
> I'm
> >
> > Because it is what spec says, no?
> >
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/StatusNotifierItem/StatusNoti
> fierWatcher/
> > "Register a StatusNotifierItem into the StatusNotifierWatcher, in the form
> of its full name on the session bus, for instance
> org.freedesktop.StatusNotifierItem-4077-1."
>
>
> Ah, interesting. That's been added since we implemented the spec.

I don't like this spec, but I guess there is no better choice... Does that mean that they have changed spec when there was existing implementations?

> > > not sure what benefit that has, and it makes things more difficult when we
> > > start looking at application confinement where we're not allowing name
> > > registrations.
> >
> > For example it makes easier to watch when name (status notifier item)
> disappears from bus:
> > https://github.com/albertsmuktupavels/libstatus-notifier/blob/master
> /libstatus-notifier/sn-watcher.c#L117
>
>
>
> You can watch for when the connection drops off the bus as well. I don't
> think there's a real difference between watching the name and the
> connection.

That was just small example. Still I think it is better to follow spec not trying to support each possible implementation that is different from spec.

> > Did not understand part about not allowing name registrations... :(
>
>
> For Ubuntu Personal and Ubuntu Phone we want to allow application
> indicators in the convergence cases, but the confinement there doesn't
> allow for name registrations on the dbus session bus.

Is there a way to detect that application is running on Ubuntu Personal and/or Ubuntu Phone? Then I could update branch to register dbus name only if it is not running on Personal or Phone.