[openbeos] Re: openbeos Digest V2 #33
- From: "Mikael J." <tic_khr@xxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 02:29:20 +0100 (MET)
> > > Well, first of all, it's OOP in C, which is often a recipe for
> > > ugliness. The code I've seen (*not* leaked, the sample headers
> > > that
> > > were released) was a complete mess. Also, doing things in the
> > > kernel
> > > meant not really being able to interact with user-space apps. For
> > > instance, a net_server addon I wrote once that monitored ethernet
> > > activity put up a deskbar widget. BONE add-ons couldn't do that.
> > >
> > Nope, instead they use ioctl()'s to just those kinds of parameters
> > filled in by the kernel driver.
> >
> > Point being?
>
> Point being that you would have to run a seperate application to put
> it
> in the deskbar, which is ridiculous. Same with DUN. You would need to
> run some kind of DUN monitor app to place it in the deskbar, which is
> needlessly increasing binaries.
>
Not really - the code for monitoring network traffic + displaying the
icon in the Deskbar probably has nothing in common with the network add
-on, despite it being in the same binary.. Think about it.
--
Mikael Jansson, BeDevID #E-20392
http://hem.spray.se/tic_khr/
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