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On 15/11/2016 21:23, Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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>> On 2016-11-14 23:52, Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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>>> Good to know. I'm currently testing openbox without dbus-launch. No |
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>>> problem yet. |
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>> Do you _know_ a reason you need dbus, at all? |
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> No. |
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>> If you don't, you don't need it ;-) |
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> I would like to believe that. |
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>> Typically, a lot of GUI apps have dbus as a soft dependency for the sole |
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>> purpose of avoiding multiple instances. So starting the app for the |
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>> second time just activates (in some general sense) the old window. |
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> Seems harmless enough. But how did they manage to convince nearly |
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> everybody that dbus is the best invention next to sliced bread? |
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because dbus is actually a *good* thing for gui environments more than a |
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simple window manager? |
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Because ONE ipc mechanism - dbus - can replace a plethora of home-grown, |
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half-baked ipc methods that in total consume far more resources than dbus? |
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dbus is a message bus, that's all it is. Simple. light, easy, gets the |
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job done in environments where lots of bits have to chat to each other. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |