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Systemd Looking At A Future With More Varlink & Less D-Bus For IPC (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Thank you :)) ! I have the same question as @umbrella if your have any other insights to share !

how is varlink better than dbus to justify that change?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'm unfortunately not aware.

What I do know is that D-Bus (and not "DBus") apparently doesn't work with MIME types directly. I may have been misinformed here - but this is some information I have received.

Essentially, the data sent cannot be assigned a type or format.

On the web, all data sent by a server has a MIME type ("text/html", "image/png", "video/mp4").

Android's system for inter-process ("running program") communication, intents, does include.
...Even Windows does, with its whatever complicated APIs.
D-Bus doesn't, so Tuxes too, don't. ...Yet.

D-Bus is apparently also not secure enough. Probably not as bad as X11, but not good enough.

So far, KDE and GNOME have had their own " wrapper" systems to allow using D-Bus through a layer of their code to cover little inconveniences like this.