Re: A New GNOME Order

["Kalle Vahlman" <kalle vahlman gmail com>]

2008/12/9 Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>:
> On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 20:05 +0100, Esben Stien wrote:
>> this means using daemons as the core of every application.
>>
>> This is proper engineering and gives a very good and powerful base.
>
> This is fantasy. Truly useful applications are more than just shallow
> facades over data models or command line tools. An application that can
> have its UI easily replaced by another UI or reimplemented in another UI
> toolkit is not a highly usable application. It's just a form.

Not sure which way Esben meant it, but I agree that creating daemons
for the sake of creating daemons is not "proper engineering".

Allowing remote access to application functionality _in addition_ to
the normal UI however is another thing though, and that's where lots
of GNOME software has been headed ever since the dawn of D-Bus.

I think the thing that would be most useful would be a set of standard
D-Bus interfaces that applications could depend on for
interconnecting. Eg. Music players, messaging applications, download
managers etc.. Lots of these exist already, but it would be highly
beneficial to bless some of them as part of the GNOME API.

-- 
Kalle Vahlman, zuh iki fi
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