Use Bonobo for what it's good for:
or, don't you dare use it for what it's not good for and blame me


good for fewer things than originally thought.
substantially failed as a binding platform; Mono

IPC
without ugly hacks
no cooking of random new protocols

wonderful for services
configuration (GConf)
accessibility brokering (at-spi)
per user addressbook (evolution)
VFS / web caching (gnome-vfs)
gnome-terminal ...