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DBUS would probably be closer to DCOM or even the Amiga's ARexx ports. Granted, with that plus XEmbed, you could get a lot of the benefits without an explicit o
by mhd 6y ago
DBUS would probably be closer to DCOM or even the Amiga's ARexx ports. Granted, with that plus XEmbed, you could get a lot of the benefits without an explicit object model/component system, but I haven't seen that done a lot in action. Linux users mostly go for 70s shell/pipes to cobble together parts. Better than nothing, but man, such wasted opportunities (and even something that doesn't require Lisp/Smalltalk/Oberon systems where everything is the PL anyway).
There's more GUI scripting done on Macs and Windows. Whole cottage industry automating Excel, for example…
- pjmlp 6y agoI feel you, back when I look to some setups I hardly see any difference to my former self organising xterms in groups of four on a X Windows IBM terminal connected to a DG/UX server, in 1994. Linux/BSD have the tooling, yet it is ChromeOS and Android that reap the benefits of such component based APIs.
- nitrogen 6y agoKDE 2 was super scriptable through dcop, and also had embeddable UI compnents with KParts (or was that in 3?). My first job after high school was QA for Lindows, and I used dcop to automate testing of their app store client (2002-2003).
- pjmlp 6y agoIt is still like that, however it doesn't help when people just stay on konsole and don't learn what their desktop is capable of.