Dbus daemon

[Joerg Barfurth]

Robert McQueen wrote:
> Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> The only feature I can think of for a user-level bus is to send broadcasts 
>> or signals to all apps from that user.
> 

> Er? No. How about services that represent or query resources which are
> conceptually belonging to the user, not to a particular session? Like
> the user's configuration settings, address book, connections to IM or
> VOIP servers...?
> 

Back to square one. For these things you'd need a true per-user (or 
per-homedir) bus. But generally you'll only get a per-user-and-machine 
bus. Past experience has shown this to create more problems than it 
solves. There is fairly limited use for per user-and-machine semantics 
and it invites developing things that work on standalone boxes, but 
break in networks.

-- Joerg

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