Re: D-BUS versus GDOMAP (Was: D-BUS equivalent)

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 29 août 04, à 19:49, Alex Perez a écrit :

> Rogelio Serrano wrote:
>
> > is DO similar to d-bus? Or can we implement something like dbus using 
> > DO?
> D-bus is basically "DO Done Right" (with a proper authentication 
> mechanism and significantly more focus on security. I've suggested a 
> few  times in #GNUstep (and maybe here on the list as well, check the 
> archives) that we replace gdomap with it, since it's a lot more 
> secure, more generally accepted as "canonical", has a much larger 
> userbase, is a  Freedesktop.org spec/app, meaning that Those Other 
> Desktops(tm) will eventually use it (and quite possibly Xorg itself at 
> a future date (after 6.8 is released, for sure)
>
> In any event, with alexm's default set, you do not need gdomap running 
> for local-host DO (you only need it for inter-host DO) Personally I 
> think that should be the default, but I'm relatively convinced that 
> Richard Frith-McDonald would disagree with me on that point.
>
> If anyone agrees that gdomap should be disabled by default (keeping in 
> mind that functionality is not lost for intra-host DO, and only for 
> inter-host DO) please voice your opinion on the matter here. IMHO, 
> gdomap shouldn't be required to simply run a GNUstep app, since this 
> creates problems with setup of the environment that cause potential 
> converts to scurry into the underbrush before we can feed them the 
> Kool-Aid.

I agree with you, gdomap should probably be disabled by default (as 
inter-host DO is quite particular case, unwanted by most users, and add 
security problems..).
I don't know much about D-bus though :-) -- an implementation of DO 
using D-bus on linux could be nice. Is D-bus available on others 
systems than linux ?

thanks,

--
Nicolas Roard
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