On Wednesday 10 February 2010 14:57:57 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:27:32AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote > > > but D-Bus provides a standard way for applications to communicate > > with one another and removing it can stop your desktop working as > > it should. > > Then how did things manage to work on my systems for the past 9 years, > pray tell?
Because pre-dbus your desktop apps used a mish-mash of all sorts of $STUFF that did the same thing in a spaghetti like manner. KDE had dcop but couldn't talk directly to gnome apps and vice-versa. post-dbus we have a coherent message bus system that is DE-agnostic and supported by freedesktop. Apps get migrated to use dbus instead of spaghetti and things work better. With KDE-3.5 you couldn't just dispense with dcop and expect stuff to work. Same with dbus currently. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
