Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome intrusion?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 15/11/2016 21:23, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@primate.net> wrote:
>> On 2016-11-14 23:52, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>>
>>> Good to know. I'm currently testing  openbox without dbus-launch. No
>>> problem yet.
>>
>> Do you _know_ a reason you need dbus, at all?
> 
> No.
> 
>>
>> If you don't, you don't need it ;-)
> 
> I would like to believe that.
> 
>>
>> Typically, a lot of GUI apps have dbus as a soft dependency for the sole
>> purpose of avoiding multiple instances.  So starting the app for the
>> second time just activates (in some general sense) the old window.
> 
> Seems harmless enough. But how did they manage to convince nearly
> everybody that dbus is the best invention next to sliced bread?


because dbus is actually a *good* thing for gui environments more than a
simple window manager?

Because ONE ipc mechanism - dbus - can replace a plethora of home-grown,
half-baked ipc methods that in total consume far more resources than dbus?

dbus is a message bus, that's all it is. Simple. light, easy, gets the
job done in environments where lots of bits have to chat to each other.



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Alan McKinnon
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