From kde-core-devel  Wed Oct 31 17:17:19 2001
From: Ellis Whitehead <kde () ellisw ! net>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:17:19 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: DCOP, NetWM
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I'm doing final preparations for the usenix/ALS conference and would like to 
check a couple conclusions:

DCOP is usually been labled as an IPC mechanism, which is technically 
correct but misleading in practice.  It serves the following 
functions:
1) scripting;
2) informing a few programs to reload their config files;
3) a few programs (a total of about three?) communicate with the panel.

Am I right in saying that 99% of the time its use is for console scripting 
rather than IPC, as far as users and non-core developers are concerned?

XML-RPC and SOAP bridges: In their current form, do they have a practical 
application yet?  Although I can imagine how they can be practically used for 
communication (rather than control) if there were a usable authentication 
mechanism working, I'm not aware of any work being done on it.

NetWM: I would like to visually demonstrate something of the interoperability 
achieved with NetWM.  Since I haven't been using many GTK apps over the last 
couple years, I can't make comparrisons based on past experience.  What's a 
good way to demonstate what's been accomplished?  Which programs might be 
good to take screen-shots of under both environments?  Any old screenshots 
laying around of problems that have been taken care of?

Many thanks,
Ellis