11 Dec
2010
11 Dec
'10
1:36 p.m.
Hello list,
recently I upgraded to maverick and suddenly experienced problems with
DCOP commands which worked always fine under intrepid, jaunty, lucid, and
karmic.
It seems that the QString support has been removed from DCOP in maverick.
When I call
dcop yakuake DCOPInterface slotRunCommandInSession 'cd /'
in a console I get the message
cannot handle datatype 'QString'
The 'cd /' command is of course not executed in yakuake. Moreover it
seems that all DCOP functions that take any QString as parameter or return
a QStrings are affected by this issue.
In other words: yakuake (and maybe also some other programs) cannot be
remotely controlled anymore which is a pitty because I used the remote
controlling functionality daily. I used to press F2 in the krusader to
open a yakuake session in the current directory, but this does not work
anymore.
Did someone else experience this problem?
Does anybody know how it can be fixed?
It can be fixed by completing the TQt conversion of those applications.
Basically, a while back a large chunk of Trinity was ported to use a
different class naming scheme so that the project would be less dependent
on Trolltech's whims with respect to the Qt API. So QString became
TQString, etc. Unfortunately not all the third party applications were
ported before the Maverick release date, so DCOP may not work properly
with some of them until the conversion is complete.
Tim