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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 02:18:43PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote |
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> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:57:57 -0500, Walter Dnes 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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> |
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> Because nine years ago, Linux desktop software didn't use interprocess |
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> communication. Of course things will still work, but not necessarily |
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> everything. For example, Network Manager uses D-Bus to tell programs when |
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> your Internet connection is available and not, so your mail client goes |
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> into offline mode rather than pointlessly trying to access your mailbox. |
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> KDE4 uses it quite extensively, ust as KDE3 used DCOP. |
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There is too much solution-in-search-of-a-problem here. XMMS followed |
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the original Unix philosophy... it did one thing did it right, namely |
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playing audio. Unfortunately, XMMS was hard-coded to use a now obsolete |
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GTK library. |
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The "successor" to XMMS is Audacious. It seems to subscribe to the |
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Microsoft philosophy, and tries to do everything under the sun, and |
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pretends it's a server, which requires dbus. Is it *REALLY* necessary? |
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I used XMMS to play mp3's and Live365.com. I ended up switching to |
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mpg123 for both functions when XMMS was dropped, and then to the Flash |
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player for Live365. I emerged Audacious, but unmerged it when I saw the |
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post-install warning that said not to submit any Audacious bug reports |
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if I don't have dbus installed. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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