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CODECs (going off-topic)

Posted Feb 24, 2008 13:57 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: CODECs (going off-topic) by salimma
Parent article: Rob Savoye discusses the Gnash project

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.