For the backend, I've talked a to the Unity team and the current status is that there is no “nice” DBus API for this in the shell. Mir exposes this [1] API, but it's hardly usable for System Settings. Unity8 will most likely have to mediate between System Settings and Mir.
For the backend, I've talked a to the Unity team and the current status is that there is no “nice” DBus API for this in the shell. Mir exposes this [1] API, but it's hardly usable for System Settings. Unity8 will most likely have to mediate between System Settings and Mir.
To be continued.
[1] http:// unity.ubuntu. com/mir/ include_ 2client_ 2mir__toolkit_ 2mir__connectio n_8h.html