From kde-core-devel  Mon Jan 02 01:03:18 2006
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 01:03:18 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDEinit problem
Message-Id: <200601011703.23317.bastian () kde ! org>
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On Saturday 31 December 2005 16:43, Anders Lund wrote:
> On Sunday 01 January 2006 01:19, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > .desktop files have an entry X-DCOP-ServiceType and X-DCOP-ServiceName
> > that essentially tell the launcher how the application will register
> > itself with DCOP. Once the application has registered in that way, the
> > launcher will return successfully.
> >
> > In general, if the process that gets started exits before the applicati=
on
> > is registered with DCOP, it assumes something went wrong and returns an
> > error.
> >
> > X-DCOP-ServiceType can have the following values:
> > * None - Don't wait for DCOP registration, return success immediate.
> > * Unique - Application registers as a unique application
> > * Multi - Application registers as name-<pid>
> > * Wait - Wait till the process exists and return success.
>
> So I could try setting the type to Wait or None.
>
> Will that be likely to have any unwanted side effects?

Applications that start kate and expect to be able to make dcop calls direc=
tly=20
afterwards may fail if kate hasn't registered itself by then. But I suspect=
=20
you only want to use this for the special case where you start kate with=20
=2D-use ?

Cheers,
Waldo

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