Andy Sy wrote:
Part of the reason for Gnome and KDE's fat could be the fact that they are trying to ape Windows' COM/OLE/ActiveX architecture with Bonobo (GNOME) and KCOP (KDE)!
Sorry, the proper acronym is DCOP, not KCOP.
See
http://www.volny.cz/bwian/dcop.html
and
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-dcop/?ca=dgr-kdeml01KDEDCOP
for their exciting possibilities... COM is about exactly being able to do this sort of thing. In fact it is obvious that COM was the inspiration for KCOP (and Bonobo as well).
Perhaps KCOP/Bonobo have had the benefit of hindsight and are cooler...? Otoh, Mono is yet another alternative...
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