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The first KDE 4.3.0 release candidate

The first KDE 4.3.0 release candidate

Posted Jul 2, 2009 18:53 UTC (Thu) by aseigo (guest, #18394)
In reply to: The first KDE 4.3.0 release candidate by bcebul
Parent article: The first KDE 4.3.0 release candidate

"There too much loss of functionality still for a day to day desktop."

such as?

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The first KDE 4.3.0 release candidate

Posted Jul 2, 2009 20:48 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Well, if you believe the bug votes, smooth scrolling. Personally I have no
idea why anyone would ever want smooth scrolling... but konsole dcop/dbus
automation would be nice to have back. (It may be back in 4.3.x, I'm not
on that yet.)

The first KDE 4.3.0 release candidate

Posted Jul 5, 2009 0:09 UTC (Sun) by aseigo (guest, #18394) [Link]

konsole dbus seems to be there :)

aseigo@independence:~> qdbus org.kde.konsole /Konsole
method int org.kde.konsole.Konsole.currentSession()
method void org.kde.konsole.Konsole.moveSessionLeft()
method void org.kde.konsole.Konsole.moveSessionRight()
method int org.kde.konsole.Konsole.newSession()
method int org.kde.konsole.Konsole.newSession(QString profile, QString directory)
method void org.kde.konsole.Konsole.nextSession()
method void org.kde.konsole.Konsole.prevSession()
method QStringList org.kde.konsole.Konsole.profileList()
method int org.kde.konsole.Konsole.sessionCount()
method QDBusVariant org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get(QString interface_name, QString property_name)
method QVariantMap org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.GetAll(QString interface_name)
method void org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set(QString interface_name, QString property_name, QDBusVariant value)
method QString org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect()

aseigo@independence:~> qdbus org.kde.konsole /Sessions/1
method void org.kde.konsole.Session.close()
method QByteArray org.kde.konsole.Session.codec()
method QStringList org.kde.konsole.Session.environment()
method bool org.kde.konsole.Session.flowControlEnabled()
method int org.kde.konsole.Session.foregroundProcessId()
method bool org.kde.konsole.Session.isMonitorActivity()
method bool org.kde.konsole.Session.isMonitorSilence()
method int org.kde.konsole.Session.processId()
method void org.kde.konsole.Session.sendMouseEvent(int buttons, int column, int line, int eventType)
method void org.kde.konsole.Session.sendText(QString text)
method bool org.kde.konsole.Session.setCodec(QByteArray codec)
method void org.kde.konsole.Session.setEnvironment(QStringList environment)
method void org.kde.konsole.Session.setFlowControlEnabled(bool enabled)
method void org.kde.konsole.Session.setMonitorActivity(bool)
method void org.kde.konsole.Session.setMonitorSilence(bool)
method void org.kde.konsole.Session.setMonitorSilenceSeconds(int seconds)
method void org.kde.konsole.Session.setTitle(int role, QString title)
method QString org.kde.konsole.Session.title(int role)

there's even more there than that, but you can probably see them for yourself with qdbusviewer :)

The first KDE 4.3.0 release candidate

Posted Jul 5, 2009 11:46 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Like I said, I haven't built it yet, or even svn uped :) but pre-emptive
before-I-ask feature additions are just what I expect of KDE!

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