Re: The technical rationale
- From: Alan Cox <alan redhat com>
- To: hp redhat com (Havoc Pennington)
- Cc: alan redhat com (Alan Cox), mathieu gnu org (Mathieu Lacage), dietmar ximian com (Dietmar Maurer), mjs noisehavoc org (Maciej Stachowiak), gnome-hackers gnome org, gconf-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: The technical rationale
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 13:21:17 -0400 (EDT)
> It isn't X-bound - if reimplemented it would probably just use some
> cheesy custom protocol over sockets. Since I didn't feel like writing
> my own IPC hack I used IIOP instead, as implemented by ORBit.
Which puts you back in the same firewall dysfunctional state as before, and
also continues the problems that make gnome unusable through firewalls. X
properties go with the display they solve that problem.
But thats a separate argument to much of this. Get the API right and its up
to nutters like me who loathe the corba stuff to reimplement it efficiently 8)
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