gnome-vfs2 / GConf2 / dbus

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Mon Jul 21 14:16:01 EDT 2008


In general,  gnome is moving away from Bonobo/Orbit toward dbus based
messaging.
                     - Jim


On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 20:09 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 13:28 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> >> The bonobo-activation-server likes to chew up 40mb (of RAM), for doing
> >> almost nothing.
> >
> > ORBit doesn't appear to depend on any bonobo components. And we've
> > successfully kicked bonobo out of the build.
> 
> It's bonobo that depends on ORBit, I guess the fear here is that, as
> bonobo, GConf might use a lot of memory because of ORBit. It should
> not be hard to measure.
> 
> Marco
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Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org>
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