Why is there no OS X Automator clone for Linux? (was: Serious OO/Debian problem...)

[Jason Spiro]

On 7/14/06, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 7/14/06, Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Well, I assume DCOP is for KDE apps, not for other apps.
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> DCOP will be replaced by D-BUS in KDE 4...
>
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus
Cool. I look forward to that.
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> If you imagine CSV to be a "standard format" in any sense of the term
> "standard," you obviously have never tried to build a parser for it...
What else is there? HTML tables? Lotus 1-2-3 .wk1 format? :-)

> - Pipes *aren't* enough, because they provide no type information.
Would it work to send MIME-encapsulated data over a Unix pipe?

Jason

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