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On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:53:10 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote: |
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>> Particularly when your wm can handle all the inter-app |
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>> communication that is necessary without dbus. |
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> the problem is the WM can NOT handle all the inter-app communication |
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> that is |
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> needed by a modern desktop environment. Especially, when you have apps |
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> that |
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> are just frames around building blocks that have to talk to each other |
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> (like |
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> for example konqueror, that is just a gui to the dolphin, khtml, konsole, |
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> gwenview kparts). |
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But it seems to me, that the apps that need the communication are in DE's. |
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Which is fine, I just think that if you're choosing a smaller WM (Openbox, |
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awesome, JWM, etc.), where there isn't a need for an inter-app |
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communication that extensive, then it's a bit of an overkill really. |
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Zeerak |
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