Re: GUADEC

On 07 Mar 2003 14:02:48 +0000
Philip Blundell <philb_at_gnu.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 13:54, Nils Faerber wrote:
> > I have not yet had a closer look on D-Bus but I would suppose that
> > they already use something like networking to communicate.
> Yes, D-BUS currently seems to use either Unix or TCP sockets.

Ah OK.

> > So I would guess that if you switch X11 displays over network you
> > could also switch communication the same way.
> The problem is that the X connection may be tunnelled through
> something like SSH, or routed via a firewall that allows X11
> connections but not other protocols. So, there is no guarantee that
> it will be possible to establish an independent communication channel
> alongside the X connection.

Hmm ... valid point!

I would really like to maintain at least the possibility to be X
independant. Maybe X11 as transport could be added as an option or
fallback (plan B so to say) to D-Bus for GPE so that it could be used
alternatively.

Have you had a look at GTK2-FB lately?
It could really be an alternative to X11 for some cases and reduce some
memory overhead.

> p.
CU
  nils faerber

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