Re: starting/stopping components in bonobo-browser

[Michael Meeks <michael trna ximian com>]

Hi Rodrigo,

On 21 Nov 2001, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> Coverfire (dan coverfire com) is getting bonobo-support up to shape
> (after the initial port to GNOME 2 I did), and it would be great to
> be able to start/stop components from it, as was done in
> goad-browser.
>
> So, the question is how to do it with bonobo-activation.
  
        Well - the thing is; why do you want to do that ? what
possible advantage can it give you to volentarily surrender resources
that are unused in order to fork a process, and register it with
bonobo-activation-server ?

        Components should be demand activated;

> That is, is it useful to do so with bonobo components? and would it
> work to just call oaf_activate and oaf_deactivate on the components?
> Is it only useful to start/stop factories?
 
        It doesn't sound that useful to me :-) However, it does sound
like you could screw load of apps up by de-registering a running
instance of a component server and thus forking a new one, creating
redundant processes and a confusing mess of servers.

        One of the big things about oaf is that (theoreticaly) it does
the locking to ensure that you can be certain that only 1 server
process is activated.

        Regards,

		Michael.


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