From a2f15f69d9ad4ff15b1c1222cdb3e9991654f144 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon McVittie Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:33:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] spec: system services' service description files have constrained names Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66608 --- doc/dbus-specification.xml | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/dbus-specification.xml b/doc/dbus-specification.xml index 3903270..b89631a 100644 --- a/doc/dbus-specification.xml +++ b/doc/dbus-specification.xml @@ -4652,6 +4652,19 @@ + On the well-known system bus, the name of a service description file + must be its well-known name plus .service, + for instance + com.example.ConfigurationDatabase.service. + + + + On the well-known session bus, services should follow the same + service description file naming convention as on the system bus, + but for backwards compatibility they are not required to do so. + + + [FIXME the file format should be much better specified than "similar to .desktop entries" esp. since desktop entries are already badly-specified. ;-)] -- 1.8.4.rc3