So, KDE has switched over from DCOP which is awesome.  This means D-Bus will be a common thread between Gnome, KDE and any other desktop that makes the same moves.   This doesn’t mean that we are in a new utopia where we share every bit of technology but it does open up a channel of communication and mutual understanding where we can share where appropriate.   D-Bus was able to transcend the eww that is developed by a (name your least favorite desktop here) developer, most likely by avoiding the G or K prefix phenomena.   It did however spawn a thankfully short lived period of D prefix zealotry.

Where do we go from here?  Well D-Bus 1.0 can pretty much move forward for the core libraries.  Once that happens we can take a look at the D-Bus branch in Nautilus/Gnome-VFS and fix that up and look at other areas of the Desktop that are still using Corba which make sense to port.  It is up to the individual package maintainers on if and when we purge Corba.

People who want to see D-Bus become the Linux standard for desktop IPC find me at GUADEC and find out how you can help push it along.  Areas of interest will include splitting out the core from the bindings, and fixing up the Python and GLib bindings.

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