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diff --git a/qt4/spec/Channel_Future.xml b/qt4/spec/Channel_Future.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5bbca17b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/qt4/spec/Channel_Future.xml @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" ?> +<node name="/Channel_Future" + xmlns:tp="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/DbusSpec#extensions-v0"> + <tp:copyright>Copyright (C) 2008 Collabora Ltd.</tp:copyright> + <tp:copyright>Copyright (C) 2008 Nokia Corporation</tp:copyright> + <tp:license xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> + <p>This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or +modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public +License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either +version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p> + +<p>This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU +Lesser General Public License for more details.</p> + +<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public +License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software +Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</p> + </tp:license> + <interface name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.FUTURE" + tp:causes-havoc="a staging area for future Channel functionality"> + + <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> + <p>This interface contains functionality which we intend to incorporate + into the <tp:dbus-ref + namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy">Channel</tp:dbus-ref> interface + in future. It should be considered to + be conceptually part of the core Channel interface, but without + API or ABI guarantees.</p> + + <tp:rationale> + <p>If we add new functionality to the Channel interface, libraries + that use generated code (notably telepathy-glib) will have it as + part of their ABI forever, meaning we can't make incompatible + changes. By using this interface as a staging area for future + Channel functionality, we can try out new properties, signals + and methods as application-specific extensions, then merge them + into the core Channel interface when we have enough implementation + experience to declare them to be stable.</p> + + <p>The name is by analogy to Python's <code>__future__</code> + pseudo-module.</p> + </tp:rationale> + </tp:docstring> + + <property name="Bundle" tp:name-for-bindings="Bundle" + type="o" access="read"> + <tp:added version="0.17.9">(in Channel.FUTURE + pseudo-interface)</tp:added> + <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> + <p>The + <tp:dbus-ref namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy">ChannelBundle.DRAFT</tp:dbus-ref> + to which this channel belongs.</p> + + <p>A channel's Bundle property can never change.</p> + + <p>Older connection managers might not have this property. Clients + (particularly the channel dispatcher) SHOULD recover by considering + each channel to be in a bundle containing only that channel, + distinct from all other bundles, which has no additional + interfaces.</p> + </tp:docstring> + </property> + + </interface> +</node> +<!-- vim:set sw=2 sts=2 et ft=xml: --> |