That’s right, in order to support the upcomming release of GNOME 3.0 which is introducing a new tabbed interface, we’ve totally made D-Bus HIG compliant by adding tabs to the API. No longer do you have to select a system or session bus while connecting. Now all you have to do is select the correct tab and you are connected. Now you might be saying, I can’t see these tabs. Because of constraints of the D-Bus system, namely not having a GUI, we had to add virtual tabs. Don’t worry, they are there, you just have to randomly click and eventually you will select the right bus. Or you can simply use the new D-Bus Gtk+ bindings which exist to provide a GUI in which to display the tabs. A word of warning though, because of Qt4’s abstraction layers when using the D-Bus Qt4 library they will show up as plasmoids. We here at Freedesktop.org hopes this makes your D-Bus hacking a much more enjoyable experience.
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Thank you for the best laugh in a while!
The part about the plasmoids was the best.
Comment by will_in_wi — July 12, 2008 @ 9:48 pm
[...] hoje vi um post muito engraçado do John Palmieri, que faz sátiras sobre toda essa situação “tabística” que o GNOME [...]
Pingback by Nação Livre » Blog Archive » Tabs everywhere ? Please, no! — July 13, 2008 @ 12:35 am
lol
Comment by andros — July 13, 2008 @ 1:04 am
Classic. I’m still waiting for the kernel to support tabs, though. Linux just isn’t ready for the desktop before we have that.
Comment by jku — July 13, 2008 @ 4:01 am
[...] a gnome 3 outline has started to take shape, and dbus now supports tabs! [...]
Pingback by wonderstuff.org » Blog Archive » at last! — July 13, 2008 @ 5:05 am
Boring.
Comment by Mark — July 13, 2008 @ 12:35 pm
Bit late. It’s not funny anymore.
Comment by Jeremy — July 13, 2008 @ 6:25 pm
This is the funniest thing I’d read all day.
Comment by Thomas Thurman — July 13, 2008 @ 10:14 pm
[...] planet during GUADEC. Most of them are crazy mockups and if implemented totally useless(some are really funny). However, nautilus tabs is really useful and have been a long awaited feature. So today, I [...]
Pingback by Thoughts of a coder » Nautilus Tabs — July 19, 2008 @ 9:54 am
[...] people had so much fun lately with jokes on notebook tabs. While some are obvious jokes (like d-bus one and tab on tab), some of the mock-ups really look realistic: gcalctool, banshee, pidgin, totem, [...]
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