Re: KDE Interop [Was: D-BUS background]

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 03:27, Julien Olivier wrote:
> Well, in the example I described, there is no communication between
> embedded components, it's only communication between totally independent
> apps: the file dialog would be an app in itself.

Which is just kinda sick.  ;-)

Besides, that wouldn't work well usability wise.  The GNOME/KDE file
dialogs have no only differing feature sets, but differing styles.  If
KDE and GNOME lived by the same HIG, then it might be more feasible to
put users thru such a feature.  As of now, tho, that would just be a
massive ugly hack with no good purpose, usability-wise.

> 
> 
> Le dim 02/03/2003 à 23:11, Chris Chabot a écrit :
> > Damn, and i was trying to be so carefully keeping UI components and backend
> > services seperated! ;-)
> > 
> > To quote from HP's "d-bus in the big picture" email:
> > 
> > ....
> > Non-use-cases for message bus
> >  - widget embedding. I don't believe we should have communication
> >    between a shell such as the file manager, and embedded components
> >    in the file manager, going via the message bus daemon.
> >   I would tend to design widget embedding by specifying an in-process
> >    component interface, and then adding some way to proxy that to an
> >    IPC mechanism. The IPC may be "network transparent" or may need to
> >    be explicit, if the shell is paranoid about locked-up components.
> > ....
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Julien Olivier" <julo altern org>
> > To: "Chris Chabot" <chabotc xs4all nl>
> > Cc: <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 22:40
> > Subject: Re: KDE Interop [Was: D-BUS background]
> > 
> > 
> > > On the same idea, wold D-BUS help create a common file dialog ? Here's
> > > my idea:
> > >
> > > There should be a file dialog daemon with chich any app (based on GTK,QT
> > > or any toolkit) could communicate and ask it to display the file dialog
> > > (written in GTK or QT or X or whatever), passing options to it (MIME
> > > type filters for example) and getting the URI back from the file dialog.
> > >
> > > Do you think D-BUS could help here ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > 
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