On 31 January, 2000 - Robert L Krawitz sent me these 4.1K bytes: > From the user's perspective The Gimp is part of GNOME. For 1.2 this > won't be really true, but only because of lack of development time to > handle the changes. Is there serious concern here that user's will > NOT want a GNOME-enabled Gimp in 2001 or 2002 when the 1.3 series > might reasonably be expected to conclude with a new stable release? > > Yes. The user may not have the disk space to install GNOME, or may > choose to run fvwm or ctwm. I use fvwm 2.3.x and I run gnome apps every now and then.. what's the problem? > Or, for that matter, the user may not want the security holes that may > exist in gnome. Take a look at this: > [...] > Huh, it looks like I have open TCP ports courtesy of GNOME. That's > not very nice, now is it? Corba stuff, you can tell ORBit to use Unix-domain sockets instead. It defaults to using tcp-wrappers and there is an authentication method used similar to the MIT magic cookies iirc.. echo "ORBIIOPIPv4=0" > $prefix/etc/orbitrc to disable TCP and use Unix-domain sockets instead. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, stric@xxxxxxxxxx, http://www.ing.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,ing,acc}.umu.se
