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authorMurray Cumming <murrayc@murrayc.com>2011-04-05 15:58:44 +0200
committerMurray Cumming <murrayc@murrayc.com>2011-04-05 15:58:44 +0200
commit008e18afb7ada12c1a914aea5036360e52a21fd0 (patch)
tree840493db1c2d67c771374badbcbcec650dbd11ed
parent072c48b1b517513dab52b91eb22297cac9d1b8e9 (diff)
downloadglibmm-008e18afb7ada12c1a914aea5036360e52a21fd0.tar.gz
DBusServer: Add overview documentation.
* gio/src/dbusserver.hg: Based on my documentation patch for GDBusServer in bug #646425.
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@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2011-04-05 Murray Cumming <murrayc@murrayc.com>
+
+ DBusServer: Add overview documentation.
+
+ * gio/src/dbusserver.hg: Based on my documentation patch for GDBusServer
+ in bug #646425.
+
2011-04-04 Murray Cumming <murrayc@murrayc.com>
ThemedIcon: Remove a property as suggested by a TODO.
diff --git a/gio/src/dbusserver.hg b/gio/src/dbusserver.hg
index 540f1a2b..03e5a964 100644
--- a/gio/src/dbusserver.hg
+++ b/gio/src/dbusserver.hg
@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ _GMMPROC_EXTRA_NAMESPACE(DBus)
* Since Server derives from Initiable, its constructors can
* throw an exception if construction fails.
*
+ * This can be used to create a new D-Bus server, allowing two
+ * peers to use the D-Bus protocol for their own specialized communication.
+ * A server instance provided in this way will not perform message routing or
+ * implement the org.freedesktop.DBus interface.
+ *
+ * To just export an object on a well-known name on a message bus, such as the
+ * session or system bus, you should instead use Gio::DBus::own_name().
+ *
* @newin{2,28}
* @ingroup DBus
*/