Re: Standard idl files

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> One of the goals of the GNOME project seems to be easy interoperability
> between application.
> So, I was wondering why it didn't seem to specify simple and very
> specialized IDL interfaces for common applications, such as a browser
> interface, a downloader interface and so on. That way, applications needing
> to launch a web browser, or to download a file would only have to use one
> of these interface.
> Is there any reason for not having such interfaces (maybe there is already
> a better way to handle that) ?

Seems like a good idea, and probably one of the long-term goals for
bonobo.

I just committed IDL for a generic "onscreen magnifier service" (plus
an implementation, of course) to at-spi/util/idl, perhaps that is a tiny 
step in that direction.

-Bill

> Thanks in advance
> 
> Christophe
> 
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