From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nfhyo-0006vH-3Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:57:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C205AE0B01; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:57:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.146]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 746EAE0B01 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:57:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so393496eyg.40 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:57:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:content-type:to:subject :references:date:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:from :message-id:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=HVpYXo/rFQuR2dZLH/qGT3PmoOwkHeS09gAGUzhfolY=; b=w7wxRBvx+fXTUqGyItzhbYgLTN6myGYn+4x93FH6xM1oCY+dPp1ICd+bPkMQC8P9Qo yw9Nbt3oFa0fiWfqJ1hVc/UzPxIAb0wdwkXHSo3YdfmnlLJgRIrqRnZW/iHVS8oL4BTW kK2ksDU5Ri8SQOp/YUdOL1WWhYAkaXz2ZAAKY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=content-type:to:subject:references:date:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:from:message-id:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=F6F8h5R15PPuH04/Hr0N5Dpw09fogZSFhs64CY76HWlCdvePHVxbxZtUR9dvyaHBIp rY0UDLLymxjRYE0zk+/NeTEo7w75Xls5ismy1H8ao/U1Ms9aM7d64L8YhcUCWD3E2a9w 1WNXYgrUqdo5WHWtUQtAqnvp9ocG84BocoAao= Received: by 10.213.100.165 with SMTP id y37mr1142853ebn.71.1265929054755; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:57:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeerak (0110ds1-abc.0.fullrate.dk [90.185.49.13]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm6793866eya.11.2010.02.11.14.57.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:57:34 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? References: <20100208222047.GA6553@muc.de> <201002120013.14686.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201002112353.10737.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:56:33 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Zeerak Waseem" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <201002112353.10737.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.10 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 1e236239-4a49-4322-ac9a-d2313e596237 X-Archives-Hash: 808d020a159de3665a470df032e3a0e9 On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:53:10 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote: >> Particularly when your wm can handle all the inter-app >> communication that is necessary without dbus. > > the problem is the WM can NOT handle all the inter-app communication > that is > needed by a modern desktop environment. Especially, when you have apps > that > are just frames around building blocks that have to talk to each other > (like > for example konqueror, that is just a gui to the dolphin, khtml, konsole, > gwenview kparts). > > > But it seems to me, that the apps that need the communication are in DE's. Which is fine, I just think that if you're choosing a smaller WM (Openbox, awesome, JWM, etc.), where there isn't a need for an inter-app communication that extensive, then it's a bit of an overkill really. -- Zeerak