From: Daniel Lyons <fusion@storytotell.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] linux reinvents factotum, secstore ...
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 11:34:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5C4D0696-0464-407B-AB72-71CE0371C302@storytotell.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090807140626.1c57db77.eekee57@fastmail.fm>
On Aug 7, 2009, at 7:06 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
> X11 isn't a desktop, it tries very hard not to define a look and
> feel, but it has to include inter-app communications to support the
> supposedly desirable drag & drop as well as any copy/paste beyond
> plain text. In fact my big beef with dbus is that everything is all
> hot-all-over about dbus when it needs to be using X IPC.
My beef is that they were hot-all-over CORBA not too long ago. I
expect in another three years nobody will be using D-Bus, they'll be
using some new layer that sits on top of it... ad nauseam. Outside
Plan 9 I don't see anyone solving two problems with one technology;
instead, they're just solving one problem and introducing a new one.
—
Daniel Lyons
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-07 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-06 18:13 erik quanstrom
2009-08-06 19:33 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-08-06 19:38 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-07 1:39 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-07 2:52 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-08-07 3:03 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-07 4:38 ` ron minnich
2009-08-07 13:06 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-08-07 17:34 ` Daniel Lyons [this message]
2009-08-07 17:37 ` ron minnich
2009-08-07 17:46 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-08-08 14:44 ` David Leimbach
2009-08-08 17:12 ` Uriel
2009-08-07 1:30 ` Roman Shaposhnik
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