Re: D-BUS versus GDOMAP (Was: D-BUS equivalent)

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 2004-08-30 02:49:05 +0800 Alex Perez 
<aperez@student.santarosa.edu> wrote:

[snip]
> D-bus is basically "DO Done Right" (with a proper 
> authentication mechanism 
> and significantly more focus on security. I've suggested a few 
>  times in 
> #GNUstep (and maybe here on the list as well, check the 
> archives) that we 
> replace gdomap with it, since it's a lot more secure, more 
> generally accepted 
> as "canonical", has a much larger userbase, is a  
> Freedesktop.org spec/app, 
> meaning that Those Other Desktops(tm) will eventually use it 
> (and quite 
> possibly Xorg itself at a future date (after 6.8 is released, 
> for sure)

I also think so.

> In any event, with alexm's default set, you do not need gdomap 
> running for 
> local-host DO (you only need it for inter-host DO) Personally 
> I think that 
> should be the default, but I'm relatively convinced that 
> Richard 
> Frith-McDonald would disagree with me on that point.
>
> If anyone agrees that gdomap should be disabled by default 
> (keeping in mind 
> that functionality is not lost for intra-host DO, and only for 
> inter-host DO) 
> please voice your opinion on the matter here. IMHO, gdomap 
> shouldn't be 
> required to simply run a GNUstep app, since this creates 
> problems with setup 
> of the environment that cause potential converts to scurry 
> into the 
> underbrush before we can feed them the Kool-Aid.
>
> Richard, I'd also appreciate it greatly if you'd give us your 
> opinion on the 
> matter. As far as I understand it, with alexm's default set 
> right now, 
> inter-host DO is still possible but you have to explicitly say 
> you want it.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex Perez
> SideSTEP Dude

Im thinking of writing something similar using objc because i 
dont like glib.

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