From kde-core-devel  Fri Oct 26 18:44:42 2001
From: Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:44:42 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Extra DCOP features (request for comment/review/any attention from
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=100412168617134

This all sounds pretty good, but a little bit too abstract - could
you post a few examples are possible with your improvements, but would
not have been previously? You could even write a tutorial for the dot...

Cheers

Rich.

ian reinhart geiser wrote:
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> Okay since we are about a week from the freeze I figured it would be moronic
> to ask for a feature in KDElibs without a patch.
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> Basicly Simon and I have been going arround on the issue of API duplication
> in my DCOP interfaces.  We agree it is bad and it is there.  The problem was
> we lacked a good way to make current DCOP library functions fit well into my
> grand vision/delusion of how DCOP should work from the users point of view.
> 
> On IRC today we agreed that DCOPPropertiesProxy was a good way to go, but
> there where some limitations that did not allow the interface to be as strait
> forward to the user as it could be.  The issue is we could process the
> commands correctly with DCOPObject::processDynamic but we needed a separate
> function to list the properties.   This prompted me to add to the DCOPObject
> class.
> 
> For consistancy sake I am proposing the addition of
> DCOPObject::functionsDynamic() and DCOPObject::interfacesDynamic().  These
> would offer both consistancy and flexability to the DCOP object.  With the
> addition of this we will be able to completely eliminate API duplication for
> these interfaces.
> 
> I have tested this patch locallly and nothing breaks during the build process
> It does break BC so I would like to apply it yet today.  I have yet to test
> all of KDE with it, I have only seen that KDE libs builds with it and that
> KDE base has yet to show any errors during build.
> 
> Thanks
> - -ian reinhart geiser
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