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

[Fred Kiefer]

Alex Perez wrote:
> 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.

As I am not following #GNUstep I cannot remember hearing this suggestion 
before. So I will give the DBUS specification a closer look. Also I 
would like to learn, what Alexanders "default set" is. Perhaps this 
could also help to run GNUstep in more hostile environments like MS Windows.