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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    back to corba (was RE: Transparency -- take 2)
From:       David Faure <David.Faure () CRAMER ! CO ! UK>
Date:       1999-09-29 14:07:25
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Hausmann [mailto:shaus@uermel.med.Uni-Magdeburg.DE]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 2:34 PM
> To: 'kde-core-devel@kde.org'
> Subject: RE: Transparency -- take 2
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, David Faure wrote:
> 
> > > I like this too and considered it (sharing the Pixmap 
> handles across
> > > applications). The problem: When KDesktop crashes all 
> > > psudeo-transparent apps
> > > will crash. You will need to check before each access and do 
> > > something else if the "server" is gone.
> > Hehe, it seems very related to the CORBA thread finally, 
> even if it's
> > not CORBA :)))
> > 
> > This is always the same problem : one program relying on another one
> > has problems if that other one crashes. Even in kde-1.x we had that
> > for kfm and all the apps trying to talk to it.
> 
> See? 

Yes I see :)

I see that what we need is the best of both worlds :
keeping CORBA interfaces for allowing third-party implementations
but using shared libs for koffice, for performance and stability reasons.

I can see two ways of doing this : 
1) using the shared-lib functionality of Corba (hi Matthias !), 
2) doing our own shared-lib stuff AND keeping IDL interfaces

What IS bad is servers, we all agree on that (hopefully).
So what need is shared libs. One way or the other among the two above, I
think.

--
David Faure
faure@kde.org - KDE developer
david@mandrakesoft.com - Mandrake
david.faure@cramer.co.uk - Cramer Systems

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