Re: D-BUS versus GDOMAP (WINDOWS users please note)

[Alex Perez]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Pete French wrote:

> > thing. D-BUS has no dependencies. You are mistaken. Read the website at 
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus where it states this in a 
> > sentence in no uncertain terms.
> 
> I just went and read this out of curiosity - and if it actually takes off
> then it might be worth us doing as it would avoid the need for
> GNUStep specific daemons to handle DO mappings.
> 
> But thats only if it takes off. If it doesnt then we just end up with
> yet another 3rd party piece of software that needs ot be installed before
> GNUstep will run unfortunately.
with it now being a freedesktop standard, the intention is to replace 
GNOME's bonobo desktop-level IPC and KDE's equivalent with D-BUS. So 
that's where things are headed. For a list of things which use D-BUS 
today, see http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/DbusProjects