Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> > > Roland Turner wrote:
> > >
> > > The fact that he's talking about Bonobo configuration backends being
> > > written in Perl suggests that the dependence upon X11 root-window
> > > resources for application/component configuration (fine, fine Gnome
> > > feature) is not, in fact, representative of things to come. This is a
> > > Good Thing.
> >
> > Anand Kumria wrote:
> >
> > That's a fairly roundabout way of saying it looks like he making this X
> > Windows only, yes?
>
> You're mistaking Raz-style bush-beating for the opposite argument methinks
> Anand.
Yep, failed to proof-read, or indeed fact-check before posting.
>From http://developer.gnome.org/doc/whitepapers/ORBit/framework.html :
"The information necessary to contact the name service is stored as a
property on the root window of the X display of the GNOME session"
This is used for object activation in the GNOME CORBA framework. It
means that the CORBA framework, sitting on GNOME, sitting on GTK+ has a
specified dependency upon X11. Not only does this break some of the
encapsulation provided by GTK+, it makes it more difficult for
interoperation with CORBA objects in other contexts (objects associated
with other displays or no display). This strikes me as a Bad Thing. I
was dissappointed when I discovered it.
> My reading suggests that Raz is counting on the Perl backend keeping this
> configuration *independent* of X, which he sees as a Good Thing.
That the 'there is a "root window of the X display of the GNOME
session"' assumption is being weakened seems to me to be a Good Thing.
> However, I think Raz may be mistaking the Setup Tools for something like
> GConf. These two aren't related - not as yet anyway.
>
> GConf is a new system for the configuration of GNOME applications, and
> should be in GNOME 2.0 (1.4 will possibly see some integration of GConf).
> Read about GConf at:
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/feature/current/index.html
>
> The Unix Setup Tools are designed to be platform independent configurators
> for... well, Unixy stuff. ;)
I don't know the details of either, I was merely pointing out what I
perceived to be a positive mind-shift.
- Raz
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