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Probably. That said, other than having "desktop" in the name, D-Bus is just a nice IPC system and inventing yet-another-IPC systems would have been worse (not c
by EmanueleAina 12y ago
Probably. That said, other than having "desktop" in the name, D-Bus is just a nice IPC system and inventing yet-another-IPC systems would have been worse (not counting kdbus as a new IPC system but rather an evolution of D-Bus).
- felixgallo 12y agowait, you're saying that inventing D-Bus rather than using existing IPC systems would have been better than inventing yet another IPC system?
- EmanueleAina 12y agoD-Bus replaced CORBA in GNOME by improving the IPC system originally used by KDE, DCOP. Unless you're a CORBA aficionado, yes, I'm glad D-Bus exist. If you feel that D-Bus duplicates existing functionality can you please elaborate?
- XorNot 12y agoHave you used CORBA? Replacing CORBA with anything else was a good decision for everyone.