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On Wednesday 10 February 2010 14:57:57 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:27:32AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote |
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> > but D-Bus provides a standard way for applications to communicate |
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> > with one another and removing it can stop your desktop working as |
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> > it should. |
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> Then how did things manage to work on my systems for the past 9 years, |
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> pray tell? |
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Because pre-dbus your desktop apps used a mish-mash of all sorts of $STUFF |
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that did the same thing in a spaghetti like manner. KDE had dcop but couldn't |
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talk directly to gnome apps and vice-versa. |
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post-dbus we have a coherent message bus system that is DE-agnostic and |
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supported by freedesktop. Apps get migrated to use dbus instead of spaghetti |
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and things work better. |
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With KDE-3.5 you couldn't just dispense with dcop and expect stuff to work. |
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Same with dbus currently. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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