Alexander Larsson wrote: > One advantage of using X would be that it works for remote X clients > too. >
I think it'd be a mistake to start using X for all ipc for that reason - you'd end up never using dbus, and X is kind of a sucky IPC. To solve this for dbus there are two basic approaches, one is to make ssh forward DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and have the session bus listen on tcp, the other is to write an X11 transport that tunnels a bus connection through X. Neither is very hard in theory though I grant neither is already done. The dbus bus name stuff is essentially designed for the unique app use-case - though, I grant it's modeled on X selections which are also essentially designed for this use-case. Either way, I think it's important to make the bus name or X selection name look "sane" when not used through the GUnique interface, i.e. on dbus the bus name for Evolution should be something like "org.gnome.Evolution" and on X the selection name should be something like "_GNOME_EVOLUTION_INSTANCE" (btw, in both cases a --replace mode would be nice, especially for debugging, and is natively/easily supported) Havoc _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
