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Autor: Didier Kryn
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Para: dng@lists.dyne.org
Assunto: Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan "WTF"?
Le 23/07/2015 10:36, T.J. Duchene a écrit :
>>       Like you I would like to get rid of Dbus. This was invented to replace the
>> own equivalents of Gnome and KDE, and I need neither Gnome nor KDE. But
>> Dbus seems to have infected every other DE. At least Xfce4.

>>
>>       Didier

>>
> I do not understand this animosity toward D-BUS. Could you please explain why it is such a point of contention? It is a only a protocol, with many different implementations. It is comfortably very generic and usedon other UNIXs.
>


     Not a strong animosity. I think the question of designing a 
middleware should be addressed with more carefull thinking if to become 
a standard. In particular with simplicity in mind.


     For the use Xfce4 makes of it, which is the means to stop the 
session (AFAIU), I consider it overcomplicated.


     Didier