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dcop

Posted Jul 6, 2007 12:43 UTC (Fri) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: dcop by rfunk
Parent article: Mandriva adds a semantic layer to the KDE 4 desktop

Adds command-line power: yes. But only when the GUI is up.

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dcop

Posted Jul 6, 2007 15:16 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Er, when the GUI isn't up then KDE and the remote control that dcop provides are
irrelevant.

.... As long as the applications store their data in a way that it can be retrieved without
the GUI (whether with the same program or a different one). That's the key.

dcop

Posted Jul 6, 2007 15:40 UTC (Fri) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

Remote control of programs is a means to an end. What I need is to be able to do useful things with the data.

Consider an example from the beginning of the thread: images collection of digikam. Or the mail folders of kmail. Or your addressbook.

I'm not saying that the interface that dcop is not highly useful. I do say that it still doesn't help if the GUI itself isn't up.