[arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

[Allan McRae]

Xavier wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:59 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
>> Here's a common use case (and probably the reason why that feature got added
>> in the first place):
>>
>> You're looking through your file manager at a directory full of text
>> documents, and you double-click on whole a bunch of them to edit them in
>> gedit.  It would be nice if they all opened in the same editor instance
>> (i.e., in a new tab), rather than having dozens of separate editor windows
>> open up.  (I use this functionality all the time, and find it very helpful.)
>>
>> Having a "New Tab" button doesn't solve this problem at all.  The only thing
>> that does solve it is the ability for an existing gedit window be able to
>> get notified about the "open another document" request.  And that requires
>> dbus (or similar) to make it happen.
>>
> 
> Oh, I did not realize that. I have always found that issue to be a big
> flaw of gui file managers.
> So that's the whole point of single instance application and libunique
> [1] that JGC just mentioned. Of course :)
> But so it actually means that every application that you can
> potentially launch on multiple files (from a file manager) would
> benefit from using libunique (which implies dbus)... or the equivalent
> functionality on top of dbus... or the equivalent functionality
> without using a standard interface which would be a big mess ?
> 
> If I got that right, I find it quite funny and ironical that a
> clueless and endless ranting about dbus ended up making me understand
> the coolness of dbus.
> 
> [1] http://live.gnome.org/LibUnique
> 

Well, at least something came out of this thread...