On Friday 25 August 2006 11:40, Com Pegasus-CC-Hotline wrote: > Hello, > > I completely understand your argument, but I see a > big benefit "nearly for free", if the already existing > dcopserver switch would allow an > > -dcopserver none > > In the base class it would be a 5 minute go, but all > kde-apps would (sooner or later) have to take care of this > possibility, so instead of complaining and stopping, they > would just "not serve" some of their functionality, when > running without dcopserver. Only very few applications could do that,most applications require DCOP for the application<->session service communication. Some examples: KWrite will need to talk to klauncher for requesting IO slaves, Kicker will (indirectly) need to talk to klauncher for starting programs, etc. The applications might still be able to display things, but it would be a really small subset of their indented functionality and require that the application developers know all the internals details of the APIs. Developing KDE applications is quite easy because you can just use the kdelibs APIs and not care how the libs implement something, because it will just work. Communication between applications will become increasingly important, because it allows applications of different platforms (e.g.KDE, GNOME) to use the services provided by the currently active platform, thus not requiring to start up their own. It's a tradeoff between resouce reusage and integration on one side and dependencies on the other. Since both sides have their advantages and followers, applications will be developed for both side, some might even take the burden to cover both. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@xxxxxx> Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org
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