Re: Scripting in Gnome

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 17:07, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> dbus and bonobo are totally unrelated. dbus was not designed to be the basis
> of a component system -> it's a simple [1] message bus.

I know but if you are going to unify desktops you will need a common
object model that can be used by both desktops interchangably otherwise
you will end up with a message based api that would grow increasingly
messy with time (like ms windows api has).

jamie.


>  It would be like
> building a component system on top of xml-rpc. bonobo is marginalised enough
> as it is without pulling the carpet out from under it.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> [1] Well, less so these days.