From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <5C4D0696-0464-407B-AB72-71CE0371C302@storytotell.org> From: Daniel Lyons To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <20090807140626.1c57db77.eekee57@fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 11:34:28 -0600 References: <20090807140626.1c57db77.eekee57@fastmail.fm> Subject: Re: [9fans] linux reinvents factotum, secstore ... Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3d6d7f3e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 =20 > feel, but it has to include inter-app communications to support the =20= > supposedly desirable drag & drop as well as any copy/paste beyond =20 > plain text. In fact my big beef with dbus is that everything is all =20= > 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 =20 expect in another three years nobody will be using D-Bus, they'll be =20 using some new layer that sits on top of it... ad nauseam. Outside =20 Plan 9 I don't see anyone solving two problems with one technology; =20 instead, they're just solving one problem and introducing a new one. =97 Daniel Lyons