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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:30:08
Message-Id: 4B72C2CE.5060805@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? by Neil Bothwick
1 chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
2 > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:57:57 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >>> but D-Bus provides a standard way for applications to communicate
6 >>> with one another and removing it can stop your desktop working as
7 >>> it should.
8 >>>
9 >> Then how did things manage to work on my systems for the past 9 years,
10 >> pray tell?
11 >>
12 > Because nine years ago, Linux desktop software didn't use interprocess
13 > communication. Of course things will still work, but not necessarily
14 > everything. For example, Network Manager uses D-Bus to tell programs when
15 > your Internet connection is available and not, so your mail client goes
16 > into offline mode rather than pointlessly trying to access your mailbox.
17 > KDE4 uses it quite extensively, ust as KDE3 used DCOP.
18 >
19 >
20
21 So that's why when I am downloading something it doesn't check my
22 emails. I was always curious about that.
23
24 Thanks.
25
26 Dale
27
28 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>