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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Feedback wanted: multiprocess KDED
From:       Sebastian =?utf-8?q?Tr=C3=BCg?= <strueg () mandriva ! com>
Date:       2008-03-25 8:20:15
Message-ID: 200803250920.15691.strueg () mandriva ! com
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On Tuesday 25 March 2008 08:32:31 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> >So here the question: would a patch that changed kded to use
> >subprocesses while staying completely backwards-compatible be accepted
> > for KDE 4.1?
>
> I don't see how you can make this happen.

I already did. It is simple: create a service stub application which loads one 
KDEDModule and control a bunch of them in KDED.

> Are you going to move only specific services to sub-processes?

All of them. 
Without any API changes. The only tricky thing is the "/modules/foobar" D-Bus 
interface which has to be forwarded with some D-Bus magic. But even that is 
not that hard.

Cheers,
Sebastian

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