Re: Bonobo UI stuff

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes:

> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Sander Vesik wrote:
> > Well, if we went with URIs there would be no 'local' distinction - you
> > would just have pointers to things.
>   
>         No. You would have an ugly mess of transports, security and
> authentication might be implemented for one transport, but
> non-transferable to another, when you proxy information forward ( via.    
> CORBA ) you will not neccessarily be able to proxy a 'URL' etc. etc. it's 
> a terrible plan to mix URLs with CORBA at this level.
> 
>         We already have a location transparent, standard transport -
> CORBA, lets use it. Martin's idea of the BonoboImageFactory is a correct  
> solution - although in fact a simple stream interface might suffice IMHO.

My idea with the image factory was that the factory returns a stream interface
for the image (but if two apps access the same image, they can get a reference
to the same CORBA object).

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Martin Baulig
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