On 02/11/2010 03:03 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > ...
And don't start with sockets. That will result in a nightmare. dbus is a clean solution to a huge problem. Apps have to talk to each other. The only way to keep it sane is a standardized IPC daemon like dbus.
Aha! This is a question that has confused me since I was still in diapers. (And may be in them again soon enough :) Could you (or anyone else here) give us a really dumbed-down summary of why a dev would want/need to use a socket, versus a pipe, versus a signal, versus dbus, versus, well, whatever else is out there? Many thanks.
