Re: [g-a-devel] Questions about the gnome-mag design

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

(sorry for replying to myself - this is a clarification)
Bill Haneman wrote:...

> Also, there are situations where the magnifier service may need to run 
> on a different host from the client.  For instance, if you are running 
> a remote application, you don't really want the magnifier to run 
> remotely as well, because of the much larger amount of X traffic and 
> the CPU requirements of the magnification service.  CORBA allows this 
> at least in theory (although our current 'bonobo-activation' mechanism 
> does not recognize remote servers).  

By this I mean that "bonobo-activation-server" doesn't report remote 
magnification services to a client which is requesting an instance of 
gnome-mag.  However, gnome-mag should work fine with remote _X servers_ 
as far as I know - at least, I have used this feature in the past.  
(Carlos, did you get this working on your system? Maybe a bug somewhere?)

If we can get the bonobo-activation-server to return the CORBA object ID 
of a remote gnome-mag service (or hack some other mechanism for getting 
the object ID), then a remote client (for instance, a remote instance of 
gnopernicus) can talk to a local gnome-mag service through the 
bonobo/CORBA IPC interface.

Bill

> This sort of case is probably more common in some corporate 
> environments, but we are not sure just how important it will be in the 
> future.