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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Improved startkde script?
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () sh ! cvut ! cz>
Date:       2002-05-16 13:36:58
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On Thursday 16 May 2002 15:17, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> Hi Lubos,
>
> > There are actually two libICE libraries used in KDE, first one is this
> >modified version for DCOP called KDE-ICE, the second one is standard
> > libICE shipped with XFree86, which is used by libSM, which is used by
> > ksmserver, and this libICE still waits those 5 seconds when there are
> > improper permissions.
>
> currently I'm discussing with the cygwin/xfree guys about this topic and I
> have an additional question:
>
> Do you know the reasons, why kde uses a derived libICE and not the original
> ? The only main reason I can see is, that KDE-ICE uses a pointer to the
> write handler instead of calling ICEWrite in libICE
>
> <         (*_IceWriteHandler) (_iceConn, (unsigned long) (_bytes), _dummy);
> \ ---
>
> >         _IceWrite (_iceConn, (unsigned long) (_bytes), _dummy); \
>
> Thanks for you time.

  I actually don't know, it's better to ask on core-devel@ (I CC-ed this 
mail). CVS log says it was Waldo Bastian who imported KDE-ICE.


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 Lubos Lunak
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