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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Desktop entries
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       1999-12-29 10:14:40
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Hiya,

I would like to add the following information to desktop files somehow:

* DCOP-service-name. If not present it defaults to the name of the 
executable.

* DCOP-service-type: App / Unique-App / None
   - App means multiple instances (processes) of this application can
      be launched. Instances of the application register themselves to
      DCOP with DCOP-service-name+"-"+getpid(). 
   - Unique-App means the applicaions handles everyhting from one
      process. The aplication registers itselves to DCOP with
      DCOP-service-name.
   - None means that the application does not register itself to DCOP.

Suggestions for names to use in the .desktop files are welcome.

This is a change for apps in the "App" category. Currently they just 
try to register themselves as e.g. "kio_http" and DCOP will honour 
these requests as "kio_http", "kio_http-2", "kio_http-3", etc.. In the 
future they will have to register themselves as "kio_http-1182",
"kio_http-1185" etc. depending on their pid. This allows the trader, 
(currently called KLauncher so that it doesn't interfere with the 
existing KTrader object) to find out in a reliable way when an 
application is ready to accept DCOP requests.

Cheers,
Waldo

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