Re: D-Bus

["Gustavo J. A. M. " Carneiro <gjc inescporto pt>]

On Sex, 2003-02-28 at 11:51, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> fre 2003-02-28 klockan 12.06 skrev Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro:
> > On Qui, 2003-02-27 at 18:33, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:20:08PM +0000, Gustavo J. A. M.  Carneiro wrote: 
> > > >   [Disclaimer: this is just my mostly-uninformed opinion.]
> > > 
> > > You should read the message-bus-list/xdg-list archives, and probably
> > > also if we want to discuss this the thread should start with a
> > > detailed analysis of the big picture. This piecemeal discussion isn't
> > > going to be very informative or get us to a conclusion.
> > 
> >   It probably would cost me too much time, and I'm too lazy. Besides,
> > where are those lists anyway? I can't find either of them on
> > mail.gnome.org.
> 
> It wouldn't really make much sense to have them on mail.gnome.org would
> it?
> 
> You can find them on:
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xdg-list
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/message-bus-list

  Thanks!

  I took a quick look at these, and I don't change my opinion at all. In
fact, I become more worried.

  And, BTW, my opinion is (not that it matters too much):

	1. KDE/GNOME integration is indeed good;

	2. D-BUS is bad. A better alternative would be:

		a. Let KDE keep DCOP;

		b. Let GNOME keep CORBA;

		c. Make a cross-desktop daemon that supports a specific CORBA IDL
interface (sendMessage, receiveMessage, etc.) and also supports DCOP,
and routes messages between the 2 system.

	3. I don't like message-oriented communication much; I see this as a
sacrifice that has to be made for the sake of integration. However, I
only wish this is used only for a selected (and small) group of features
that need to be cross-desktop.

  Regards.

-- 
Gustavo Joćo Alves Marques Carneiro
<gjc inescporto pt> <gustavo users sourceforge net>