[MPlayer-dev-eng] The future of a GUI

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:42:09AM -0600, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
> Maybe not faster, but it will remove the async issues...
> 
> For example right now to get a property, I have to write into the input
> pipe.
> 
> get_property volume
> 
> Then the output pipe reader has to wait for ANS_VOLUME to appear in the
> stream. I then have to parse the data, and extract out the value.
> 
> And then I have to post an signal to do something with the data.
> 
> 
> With dbus we could have it so that when you ask for the volume, you
> would get it like a function call...

You can write the get_property wrapper to be synchronous as well,
so that doesn't sound to me like it can be the core issue either.