From kde-core-devel Mon Mar 26 12:07:26 2001 From: Cullmann Christoph Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:07:26 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Future of DCOP X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=98560852309334 Am Montag, 26. März 2001 13:50 schrieb Matthias Ettrich: > I've done some thinking about DCOP recently, under the lights of the > ongoing problems with libICE on platforms other than Linux and the fact > that it's unmaintained. > > Thinking about alternatives, there are really just two options, ORBit and > MCOP. > > Given that MCOP is meant for multimedia and that we eventually will have to > or want to utilize ORBit anyway in the future for all kinds of desktop > cooperation (accessability, session management (XSMP over ORBit rather than > ICE), network directory services, ...), I'd like to evaluate porting DCOP > over to ORBit as underlying communication layer. > > DCOP is a nifty ipc solution based on standard X11 and libICE is definitely > fixable. But I really care more about semantics and ease of use than the > binary format on the network. Replacing libICE with ORBit should be > straight forward - almost. The only technical problem I see right now is > for the DCOPServer to safely detect when a client goes down. I hope this is > solvable, if not by adding something to ORBit. I haven't checked this yet. > > Opinions, flames, suggestions? > > > Matthias Hi, I have used sometime ago GNOME gnorba stuff (using ORBit) and I see no problems in the speed sector, ORBit is really a fast orb - > good replacement. Using ORBit seems to be a good idea, because GNOME uses it too (why there should be 2 implementations of the same thing). IMHO your idea seems to be great :) cu Christoph -- | | / / - get an edge in editing - | | / / »»»» GET KANT «««« | |/ / a fast and capable multiple document, | \ multiple view text editor for KDE | |\ \ | | \ \ http://devel-home.kde.org/~kant