Re: Namespacing issues ...

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes:

> Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com> writes:
> 
> > Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes:
> > 
> > > 2.) The OAFIID and .oafinfo issue
> > > 
> > >     Currently we have "OAFIID:eog_image_viewer:..." - I think we should also
> > >     change all of them to something like "OAFIID:GNOME:EOG_image_viewer" so
> > >     that all OAFIID's contain `GNOME:' and the application name `EOG_'.
> > 
> > What's the value of namespacing OAFIIDs? The UUID portion at the end
> > already guarantees uniqueness.
> 
> Hmm, yes.
> 
> But there may still be a value of namespacing them even if it's not technically
> necessary - it's just easier for the developer to remember a "namespaced" OAFIID
> than to remember the UUID portion of it.
> 

I don't plan to remove the UUID portion, so memory is not really an
issue. I don't think namespacing will substitute for unique
IDs. There's going to be a lot more different components than
different IDL interfaces, ultimately, so using the IDL namespacing
approach is not really good enough.

 - Maciej