Well, apart Dirk questions I'd raise two essential (IMHO) aspects:

a) a technical one. Does orbit offer things KDE needs now and ICE can't 
offer? If it doesn't, why risk breaking unknown quantity of things for the 
future KDE releases? 

Granted, the "maintained" label is compelling, but we have to see: a readable 
piece of code, unmaintained, can become maintainable. A not so readable piece 
of code, maintained, can very easily become unmaintained. At least, we saw 
that there is maintainance interest for ICE around (in our very near circles).

b) a logistical one. IMHO, orbit didn't prove viability the way DCOP+ICE did 
(as far as KDE goes, at least). Could we hope on ever having a compatible 
version of orbit shared by KDE and Gnome? What happens when redhat releases 
these with clashes, for example?

On Monday 26 March 2001 08:15, Matthias Ettrich wrote:

> with a maintained black box of C-code,  and whenever somebody complains
> about DCOP errors we can blame the Gnomes ;-)

I would never dare to accept this, even with a smiley. But I'm a melancholic 
bitch.


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