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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: dcop interfaces, standard ?
From:       Simon Hausmann <shaus () helios ! med ! Uni-Magdeburg ! DE>
Date:       1999-12-07 21:57:40
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On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Bernd Gehrmann wrote:

> On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 Simon Hausmann wrote:
> >On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Bernd Gehrmann wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 David Faure wrote:
> >> >I think that when one applications wants to use another one,
> >> >it should use KParts (the next one) and load the other app's shared lib,
> >> >instead of using DCOP - for the same reasons that we dropped CORBA.
> >> 
> >> Which reasons?
> >
> >If the component, which is to be controlled, has a graphical user
> >interface, then embedding is probably the way to go.
> 
> If I would want to have everything in one window, I would use Emacs
> in a console, not X11.

You didn't get the point :-)

If you want to do embedding, then you will also want to merge GUIs. If you
want to merge GUIs, then using DCOP or CORBA is the wrong thing (that was
David's point I think) .

Ciao,
 Simon

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