[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-artists
Subject:    Re: IDEA: KStandardApps
From:       Sirtaj Singh Kang <ssk () physics ! unimelb ! edu ! au>
Date:       1999-10-13 7:36:28
[Download RAW message or body]

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Richard Moore wrote:

> I was thinking the other day that it would be nice to have a class
> analogous KStandardDirs that allowed access to some common apps. For
> example kfiledialog and kfm both have an option to run kfind - it would
> be nice if we could make this a more general facility. For example I
> think we should be able to:
> 
> - Run find on a directory
> - Open a mailer with a specified mail address
> - Open a URL
> - Open a terminal
> - Your idea here

A very good idea, which also occurred to me when I looked at KApp after a
while (a coule of new invoke* functions). Are you going to write it? :) 

I was wondering how you'd go about with the plugin system since we
couldn't use invoke* methods. Perhaps a generalized URL for that too (ie
mailto:, help:app/chapter/subsection, telnet: etc)

-Taj.

Sirtaj S. Kang       taj@kde.org         ssk@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Univ of Melbourne	The "gui" in "Penguin" is pronounced "K-D-E"

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]