From kde-devel  Mon Oct 29 19:26:16 2001
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:26:16 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Registering MIME types
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=100438374724714

On Lundi 29 Octobre 2001 21:14, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Monday 29 October 2001 02:14 am, David Faure wrote:
> > > > You can either install this desktopfile as "service" or as
> > > > "application". The difference is that "applications" ed up in the
> > > > K-menu.
> >
> > Although you can also use NoDisplay=true to have an application that
> > doesn't appear in the K menu.
> > I think this is what you want here, since you still want the thing to be
> > run as an application.....
> 
> Is there any difference then between running as an "application" and running 
> as a "service"?

No, running either is the same. But the difference is when querying them...

void KonqFactory::getOffers( const QString & serviceType,
                             KTrader::OfferList *partServiceOffers,
                             KTrader::OfferList *appServiceOffers )
{
    if ( appServiceOffers )
    {
        *appServiceOffers = KTrader::self()->query( serviceType, "Application",
"DesktopEntryName != 'kfmclient' and DesktopEntryName != 'kfmclient_dir' and DesktopEntryName != 'kfmclient_html'",
                                                    QString::null );
    }

This shows that the entries that appear in the RMB/"Open With..." in 
Konqueror, can only be applications. It wants to launch applications from there.

Services are usually libraries (parts, or other kind of plugins).

-- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/ , http://www.konqueror.org/
KDE 3.0: Konquering the Desktops
 
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