Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] GnomeMeeting in the very near future

[Miguel Rodríguez <migrax terra es>]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 09:07 +0200, Damien Sandras wrote:
> Le mer, 28/04/2004 à 08:55 +0200, Miguel Rodríguez a écrit :
> > On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 07:33 +0200, PUYDT Julien wrote:
> > > Bonobo doesn't run on win32 as far as we know, and isn't kde-friendly,
> > > so that means if we go for bonobo, we'll have to add yet another
> > > implementation of that too.
> > > 
> > What do you mean but "not-kde friendly". Is there a real reason why it
> > should not be used under kde (of the kind of makes kde unusable, or the
> > *user* notices because of a, b and c?)
> 
> Bonobo is not usable from KDE apps. DBUS will be.
Good answer..., i was under the (incorrect) impression that what Snark
meant was that bonobo & orbit were more dependencies to compile...
> 
> > > > Ugh. More custom protocols for doing IPC is something we don't need
> > > > really. What is keeping you from using ORBit/Bonobo for this? It is
> > > > portable. As portable as using other unix sockets is anyway, since that
> > > > is all that ORBit does for the IPC communication. It just happens to
> > > > already be a full-fledged standard that is widely used for doing things.
> > > > The GNOME build is going to depend on bonobo anyway.
> > > 
> > > Quite true, but at least it will work for gnome+kde+win32...
> > 
> > Again, AFAIK ORBit/Bonobo works great under KDE. In fact it does under
> > fvwm...
> 
> Ah, what KDE program is able to interact with a GNOME program through
> bonobo?
Read above... (btw, it could be done, but i know it won't happen).
> 
> > Don't know about win32, but i would guess the non-ui part of bonobo
> > should be easily portable.
> > 
> 
> Ah, even better. Do you volunteer?
I never coded a single line of code for win32 without being paid. And I
hope I never will.