From kde-core-devel  Tue Sep 28 18:43:20 1999
From: Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:43:20 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: IDEA: KStandardApps
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=93854457301550

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Richard Moore wrote:
> I was thinking the other day that it would be nice to have a class
> analogous KStandardDirs that allowed access to some common apps. For
> example kfiledialog and kfm both have an option to run kfind - it would
> be nice if we could make this a more general facility. For example I
> think we should be able to:
> 
> - Run find on a directory
> - Open a mailer with a specified mail address
> - Open a URL
> - Open a terminal
> - Your idea here
> 
> Centralising this would allow people to write plugin replacements if
> they don't want to use the standard KDE applications. It should be trivial
> to implement. What do you think?

Good idea.

--Stefan