J Leslie Turriff via tde-devels wrote:
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.)
This is not for scripting but for developing applications that use dcop
DCOP /could/ be used for extending UI functionality in applications, but apparently the designers of KDE never thought of that. In fact, the only
But it is not working the way you obviously think it would work. Again it is there to provide interfaces to be used between applications on the same or on a remote computer.
You can not access the interface via script - it is just like DBus - a sort of the grand mother.
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/zVMV7R2sc2463...
Mixed feelings about IBM.