From kde-core-devel  Thu Dec 09 11:17:04 1999
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 11:17:04 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: dcop interfaces, standard ?
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Antonio Larrosa wrote:
> 
> Simon Hausmann wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Bernd Gehrmann wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 David Faure wrote:
> > > >I think that when one applications wants to use another one,
> > > >it should use KParts (the next one) and load the other app's shared lib,
> > > >instead of using DCOP - for the same reasons that we dropped CORBA.
> > >
> > > Which reasons?
> >
> > If the component, which is to be controlled, has a graphical user
> > interface, then embedding is probably the way to go. No need to mention
> > reasons why using CORBA or DCOP is probably not the best solution for
> > that.
> >
> 
> No, if they are both KDE applications, I agree that KParts is what should
> be used.
> 
Be aware, that embedding gives a lot of problems when you also embed the
address space. Namely it requires you to put all symbols in an unique
namespace for each app or make sure they mean the same (no conflicting
versions of the same library). And most apps don't do that right now.
So: if it's possible I would go with DCOP in simple cases.

Greetings, Stephan

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