From kde-core-devel Mon Oct 22 14:55:53 2007 From: Lubos Lunak Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:55:53 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: kde3 kde4 coinstallability take two Message-Id: <200710221655.53910.l.lunak () suse ! cz> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=119306947011851 On Monday 22 of October 2007, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Monday 22 October 2007, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > > usr/bin/kstart > > > user application to start programs with weird args. Append 4 ? > > > > I guess not, since there might be user scripts out there that use it by > > name. > > > > First of all, is this runtime material or workspace? I.e., does it work > > with other WMs than kwin? > > > > Most of this application's options are related to the window placement, > > so how is it communicating that information to the Window Manager? If > > it's native WM hints, then either kstart would work just fine in either > > environment. > > > > If it's using DCOP/D-Bus, then distributions will need to replace this > > with a shell script that detects the running environment and execs the > > correct one. Meaning: you need to rename the KDE 3 one too. > > From a quick look at the code I'd say it is using direct X11 communication > with the window manager, so it should work with other window managers as > well and there is probably no difference for a script if it calls the KDE3 > or KDE4 version. Correct. However it's a user script and I don't think it belongs to kdebase/runtime. Well, at least it's certainly a hack ugly enough not to be used by other apps. -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer -------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 972 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http//www.suse.cz