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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Questions about KDCOPActionProxy...
From:       Bernd Gehrmann <bernd () physik ! hu-berlin ! de>
Date:       2001-09-28 14:46:55
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, ian reinhart geiser wrote:
> 
> my original vision was to add dcop interfaces to most of the KDEUI classes so 
> that actions could be automated.  In apple the philosopy is: "If you can do 
> it in the GUI it should be able to be automated."  There are some technical 
> reasons in MacOS why this was never realized, we do not have those limits ;)

With Qt3, you can actually extend the DCOP-QObject bridge such that
you can call any slot in any QObject via DCOP, without the programmer
having to add anything. The remaining problem then is only to give 
objects meaningful names.

Bernd.

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