On 2024-05-23 13:32:15 deloptes via tde-devels wrote: > But DCOP is not meant to be used directly. It is to provide communication > between applications (even running on different computers). This is what > was then replaced by DBus and the effort was discussed (Slavek, Michele > other devs) what needs to be done to move TDE to DBus. I do not recall > exactly if we agreed to work on that after 14.2 or so. > IMO it would be great to move to DBus. > > As for the functionality exposed to DCOP, it must be coded in the > application, which is not done without a meaningful requirement. So what > you see in DCOP is there, because something needs it to communicate with > the application for a specific reason. The same holds for DBus. No one > would code functionality because someone might need it. It is coded only if > it is needed. > > I know only this page > https://www.trinitydesktop.org/docs/trinity/tdelibs/dcop/html/index.html > > Regarding Kate it could be that dcop is needed for the Kate Part - I don't > know for sure. > > IMO DCOP is not intended for command line use Well, no, but for scripting, as shown in the webpage you pointed to. (Thank you for providing that; it's much more detailed than what's in the Administrator Guide handbook.) DCOP /could/ be used for extending UI functionality in applications, but apparently the designers of KDE never thought of that. In fact, the only PCish computer OSes I can think of that provide such user-oriented capability were OS/2 and AmigaOS. (There might be others I have not come across.) I admit I have been thoroughly spoiled by early exposure to IBM's text-only (then) mainframe OSes, which provided such capabilities*, and I want to emphasize that my intention in this thread is not to criticise TDE. Leslie *For instance, see Chapter 7 of the z/VM Xedit User's Guide - https://www-40.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc0302a.nsf/pages/zVMV7R2sc246338/$file/dmsb5_v7r2.pdf -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.2 tde-config: 1.0 ____________________________________________________ tde-devels mailing list -- devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devels-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
