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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Desktop entries
From: Torben Weis <weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de>
Date: 2000-01-04 17:38:57
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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
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