Re: starting/stopping components in bonobo-browser

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 06:59, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
ok, so it makes no sense to do it. That's what I was thinking, but as
goad-browser did it, we were thinking on having the same functionality.

cheers
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