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GNOME went for proper CORBA (in the form of Bonobo [1]), KDE preferred something non-standard but easier to work with and much more performant (what is now KPar

by gioele 7y ago

GNOME went for proper CORBA (in the form of Bonobo [1]), KDE preferred something non-standard but easier to work with and much more performant (what is now KParts [2] + DCOP [3]). Bonobo has been abandoned around GNOME 2.4. KParts are still used in KDE 5 and you have probably heard of DCOP's child: D-Bus. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo_(GNOME) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo_(GNOME) [2] https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kparts/html/index.html https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kparts/html/index.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCOP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCOP

gmueckl 7y ago
D-Bus is now mandatory system level software on Linux thanks to systemd. KHTML became the grandfather of practically all modern browsers except Firefox. In those terms, parts of the KDE project were extremely successful. It's a bit sad that the desktop as a whole didn't profit that much fron that success.
- dTal 7y ago
  >D-Bus is now mandatory system level software on Linux thanks to systemd Oh, it was mandatory before that, if you wanted a graphical desktop, or the ability to print, or Network Manager to work. Quite a lot of "magic" that doesn't obviously happen through files or sockets, happens over D-Bus.
  - gmueckl 7y ago
    But these features are pretty much desktop specific. You didn't really need to run d-bus on a server before systemd happened.
  - vetinari 7y ago
    D-Bus is basically standardized marshalling over socket, so all that magic mentioned does happen through sockets.
usrusr 7y ago
Thanks for that interesting bit of history, also to the co-replyers.