From kde-core-devel  Sat Dec 25 10:19:16 1999
From: David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 10:19:16 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Desktop entries
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=94650474431281

At 11:14 29/12/99 +0100, you wrote:
>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.

Perhaps it's even useless ?
With DCOP we've always referred to apps with their name, now that the app name
is mandatory...

>* 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

Sounds very good to me.

Who said "they are reinventing CORBA" ? :-)

David Faure <faure@kde.org>