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CODECs (going off-topic)
CODECs (going off-topic)
Posted Feb 21, 2008 14:57 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: CODECs (going off-topic) by patrick_g
Parent article: Rob Savoye discusses the Gnash project
Well, bonobo's been vanishing since GNOME 2.8 or something, and d-bus hasn't arrived in 2.20, and I can't imagine that many apps have gained much automation support in the time since that was released (what, a few months?) Still it'll be nice if it can get to where KDE is now (the easy embeddability KParts provides is lovely; you can pretty much write a minimal KPart in a few lines).
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Posted Feb 21, 2008 15:58 UTC (Thu) by Frej (subscriber, #4165) [Link]
Why hasn't d-bus arrived?
CODECs (going off-topic)
Posted Feb 28, 2008 8:30 UTC (Thu) by goaty (guest, #17783) [Link]
It's d-layed.
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Posted Feb 21, 2008 17:31 UTC (Thu) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]
Pardon? DBus is used heavily -- it's how NetworkManager signals the presence/absence of network connections, how applications inhibit Gnome Screensaver from activating, etc. It's not an embedding mechanism like Bonobo and KParts, true. And it's true that Bonobo is not as widely used as KParts is in KDE land. But that does not make DBus a failure.
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Posted Feb 24, 2008 13:57 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
I was assuming the `bonobo is dead, use d-bus instead' messages implied that one was being used as a replacement for the other, especially given that KDE *has* successfully used d-bus to implement an embedding mechanism. So, er, GNOME doesn't actually have a non-deprecated embedding mechanism right now, then?
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Posted Feb 24, 2008 20:10 UTC (Sun) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
D-Bus is being used in a lot of places to replace Bonobo. See, Bonobo was originally meant to be far more than just an embedding technology (it was a compound document format, inter-application communication framework, etc etc). D-Bus is just meant to replace the IAC. > GNOME doesn't actually have a non-deprecated embedding mechanism right now, then? Bonobo isn't deprecated yet. It's still used for embedding and a few other legacy places. Its days are numbered, yes, but the number is still pretty high. :) The Gnome project seems to be moving methodically, replacing Bonobo one piece at a time. Personally, I don't think that's a bad strategy.