Important for 1.0 === - add a new return code from dbus_connection_dispatch() called IN_PROGRESS or RECURSED or something, indicating that DATA_REMAINS but another dispatch is in progress, so we can't dispatch at this time. OR maybe just switch to recursive locks for the dispatch locks. Fixes the recursive deadlock. See the @todo for more and this thread: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2006-February/004128.html - Audit @todo and FIXME for security issues - the "break loader" and valid/invalid message tests are all disabled; they need to be fixed and re-enabled with the new message args stuff. I think I want to drop the .message files thing and just have code that generates messages, more like the tests for dbus-marshal-recursive.c (this is mostly done now, just needs some cleanup) - just before 1.0, try a HAVE_INT64=0 build and be sure it runs - publish the introspection dtd at its URL - fix locking on DBusPendingCall Important for 1.0 GLib Bindings === - Test point-to-point mode - Add support for getting sender - format_version in the object info doesn't look like it's handled correctly. The creator of the object info should specify some fixed number per struct version; the library should handle only specific numbers it knows about. There's no assumption that all numbers >= the given one are compatible. The idea is that new versions of the lib can offer totally different object info structs, but old versions keep working. Important for 1.0 Python bindings === - Hammer down API - Fix removing of signals from the match tree - Fix refcounting and userdata lifecycles - Write a generic mainloop Might as Well for 1.0 === - protocol version in each message is pretty silly Can Be Post 1.0 === - if the GUID is obtained only during authentication, not in the address, we could still share the connection - Allow a dbus_g_proxy_to_string()/g_object_to_string() that would convert the proxy to an "IOR" and dbus_g_proxy_from_string() that would decode; using these, dbus-glib users could avoid DBusConnection entirely. Of course the same applies to other kinds of binding. This would use dbus_connection_open()'s connection-sharing feature to avoid massive proliferation of connections. - DBusWatchList/TimeoutList duplicate a lot of code, as do protected_change_watch/protected_change_timeout in dbus-connection.c and dbus-server.c. This could all be mopped up, cut-and-paste fixed, code size reduced. - change .service files to allow Names=list in addition to Name=string - The message bus internal code still says "service" for "name", "base service" for "unique name", "activate" for "start"; would be nice to clean up. - Property list feature on message bus (list of properties associated with a connection). May also include message matching rules that involve the properties of the source or destination connection. - Disconnecting the remote end on invalid UTF-8 is probably not a good idea. The definition of "valid" is slightly fuzzy. I think it might be better to just silently "fix" the UTF-8, or perhaps return an error. - build and install the Doxygen manual in Makefile when --enable-docs - if you send the same message to multiple connections, the serial number will only be right for one of them. Probably need to just write() the serial number, rather than putting it in the DBusMessage, or something. - perhaps the bus driver should have properties that reflect attributes of the session, such as hostname, architecture, operating system, etc. Could be useful for code that wants to special-case behavior for a particular host or class of hosts, for example. - currently the security policy stuff for messages to/from the bus driver is kind of strange; basically it's hardcoded that you can always talk to the driver, but the default config file has rules for it anyway, or something. it's conceptually screwy at the moment. - when making a method call, if the call serial were globally unique, we could forward the call serial along with any method calls made as a result of the first method call, and allow reentrancy that was strictly part of the call stack of said method call. But I don't really see how to do this without making the user pass around the call serial to all method calls all the time, or disallowing async calls. If done post 1.0 will probably be an optional/ugly-API type of thing. - I don't want to introduce DBusObject, but refcounting and object data could still be factored out into an internal "base class" perhaps. - Keep convenience wrappers in sync with bus methods - document the auth protocol as a set of states and transitions, and then reimplement it in those terms - recursive dispatch, see dbus_connection_dispatch() - do we need per-display activation; if so I'd like to do this by setting a "display ID" property on screen 0, with a GUID, and keying activation by said GUID. Otherwise you get all kinds of unrobust string/hostname-based mess. per-screen is then done by appending screen number to the display. If displays have a deterministic ID like this, you can do per-display by simply including GUID in the service name. - optimization and profiling! - Match rules aren't in the spec (probably a lot of methods on the bus are not) Should Be Post 1.0 === - look into supporting the concept of a "connection" generically