Remote Control of GUI Apps on Linux
No ubiquitous standard like COM
There are KDE allows some scriptability with DCOP
Some Gnome apps have CORBA interfaces for some of their functionality.
- not many apps do this, and not much is exposed.
Gnome Accessibility framework provides an other way to script applications.
- controls the user interface rather than the data model though
- Gives some level of control over all many apps