Re: Scripting in Gnome

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="jamie">

> The fact that slow bloated KDE thought the Corba implementation in Gnome
> was slow and heavy on memory usage and hence decided not to use it speaks
> for itself.

That was during the MICO days.

> Most people are looking to unify the desktops using D-Bus so why not have
> bonobo make use of it? If bonobo wont use it then some other object layer
> will and that would probably end up marginalising bonobo.

dbus and bonobo are totally unrelated. dbus was not designed to be the basis
of a component system -> it's a simple [1] message bus. It would be like
building a component system on top of xml-rpc. bonobo is marginalised enough
as it is without pulling the carpet out from under it.

- Jeff

[1] Well, less so these days.

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