Re: Quicker remote operation through CORBA?

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 20:28, Adrian Robert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use Epiphany 1.2.x on my Debian system.  I have a 1GHz machine, but 
> using 'epiphany --new-tab url' is rather slow to load up a window, 
> presumably because it must load the 1Mb+ binary and link it to its 
> shared libraries before turning to the task of finding whether an 
> instance of epiphany is running.  (A side issue, the new tab should be 
> but is not selected, even though --noraise is not given.)
> 
> I remember in Gnome 1 programs could communicate with one another using 
> CORBA.  I believe this feature is still around in some transformed form 
> in Gnome 2, so I was wondering whether there was a simple way to use 
> this (in a shell script if possible, or a small binary if not) to 
> implement a faster way of asking an existing epiphany process to load a 
> URL?  (BTW I know this is NOT the basis of gnome-moz-remote, which I 
> think uses a Mozilla-specific interprocess communications protocol.)
> 

We are already using CORBA for interprocess communication. epiphany-bin
is both client and server at the moment.

Marco