From kde-core-devel Thu Nov 25 17:42:31 2004 From: Will Stephenson Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 17:42:31 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: RFC: Keeping track of online/offline status & central DNS Message-Id: <200411251742.31820.lists () stevello ! free-online ! co ! uk> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110140458605463 On Thursday 25 November 2004 14:29, Waldo Bastian wrote: > (Cornelius) > > Might it be desirable to not require DCOP here, so that distribution > > specific tools don't need to be able to use DCOP? > > In KDE4 they will be able to use DBUS instead. I don't think it makes sense > to develop a new IPC mechanism just to fill the gap till then. Note that > they can use the dcop command line utility as long as we don't put > non-standard data types in the DCOP interface. That's a point to keep in > mind of course. I don't know about developing a new IPC but it would make sense to provide a lower level hook so that this service can talk to the numerous distribution specific connection control tools, and listen to their notification services, even if it requires distributions to write a glue plugin. We could provide a DCOP plugin for the simple case and replace this part with DBUS for KDE 4. Will -- Will Stephenson IRC: Bille