From kde-core-devel  Tue Jan 04 17:38:57 2000
From: Torben Weis <weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 17:38:57 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Desktop entries
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=94711814718121

Hi,

On Mit, 29 Dez 1999, Waldo Bastian 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.
> 
> * 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.

Little remark: When you start the same processes on different machines
but with the same X11 Server then the same name and the same PID
may be used twice.

Bye
Torben
 
> Cheers,
> Waldo