24 May
2024
24 May
'24
12:04 a.m.
J Leslie Turriff via tde-devels wrote:
This is not for scripting but for developing applications that use dcop
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
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/zVMV7R2sc246…
Mixed feelings about IBM.
--
FCD6 3719 0FFB F1BF 38EA 4727 5348 5F1F DCFE BCB0