Re: A primate's worries about Unix and GNOME

[Bruce Stephens <bruce cenderis demon co uk>]

allbery@ece.cmu.edu writes:

> On 30 Jul, David G. Wonnacott wrote:
> +-----
> | 1) Does CORBA or anything else make it easy to build tools that
> |    provide both a software interface and a GUI?
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> 
> The whole point of CORBA is communication between software
> interfaces.  Think of it as a "smart pipe" which is bidirectional
> and allows components on different machines to communicate via
> method calls and callbacks.

That was my understanding too.  Are there any examples of tools which
demonstrate this?

It would be cool to have a bunch of (presumably small) command line
utilities which would connect the ordinary shell-script/pipe Unix
world with the CORBA world.