corba/gnorba/bonobo documentation + misc question/ideas

[Mlacage aol com]

Hi

Well, since last week, 2 new chapters were written and the first one was 
corrected...
The 4th chapter is expected to be completed by the end of next week.
I hope that some of you will go at 
http://www.stud.enst.fr/~lacage/linux/corba/book1.html (html version) or 
http://www.stud.enst.fr/~lacage/linux/corba/corba.tar.gz (docbook sgml 
version)
to let me know about what you think about this documentation.
Comments and even flames are welcome.

questions:
1) eliot: if gnome_get_name_service exists, then will not work ? (with ORBit 
, of course)
CosNaming_NamingContext ns = CORBA_ORB_resolve_initial_service (orb, 
"NameService", &ev);

2) this is just an idea: was wondering : why not having a window manager 
using some special gtk widgets to decorate windows ? this is stupid ? or 
allready on the work ? this would instanously give us an enlightenment like 
window manager... Perhaps is this much too slow.

3) does libart use gdk at the lowest level ? or xlib ?

4) i used kde 6 months ago and gnome since then. Some friends used kde, still 
use kde and tried gnome: they agree with me. Why are gnome applications much 
slower than kde ? This is really noticeable even on fast machines and my P 
233 with 96MB and 2MB video really IS slow. I understand that many parameters 
may go into such a question and the question itself does not make much sense 
but it is something i can see and it makes me angry.

5) last one, hopefully :) Is there something planned to implement something 
like kde's file library: the one which abstracts completely applications from 
the network and allows any app to work on distant files. I think this is near 
gmc's virtual file system but this file system is not really available to 
other applications than gmc. am i wrong ?


I understand these questions are rather strange together but... some of them 
have been on my mind for too long. I hope some will answer.

Mathieu