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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Url via DCOP comments.
From:       Sean Pecor <sean () digitalspinner ! com>
Date:       2002-04-15 1:24:39
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On Sunday 14 April 2002 18:56, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> How does this sound?

However the solution is finally implemented I just want to be able to query 
the current working file/directory of every KDE application. I want to be 
able to tell that Korganizer is currently working with 
"/home/sean/clienta.ics" and not "/home/sean/clienb.ics". I also want to be 
able to tell that Kate is currently working on 
"/mnt/sites/clienta.com/index.html" and not 
"/mnt/sites/clientb.com/products.html". If every application can provide this 
then my homebrewed klocker project (which maintains an independent timer for 
each window that runs only when it's window has focus) can:

1. Use DCOP to retrieve the URL/CWD/filepath for every application and 
associate it with it's accumulating time register. 

2. Periodically use regex filters like time spent on "^/mnt/sites/clienta.com" 
for a given work week to find out how much time was spent on the "Client A" 
project by referencing my time register log. Furthermore, I can break a  
report down like "25% Kmail, 30% Kate, 20% Konsole, 25% Konqueror" etc. This 
would help me understand how to better allocate my time too. 

3. Intelligently open up a session by querying all known recent time registers 
for a particular project, and attempting to open up each application with the 
recorded URL/filepath/CWD. For example, I could select "Start Xyz Company 
Project" and it would be able to open up a Konsole to the recorded CWD, open 
up Kmail with the recorded Folder, open up Kate with all the recorded files. 
This would be a really great solution for me, and perhaps others. 

In the short term perhaps I'll do what Ian suggested, which is dig into the 
apps and start adding this get/set capability. I may indeed find that it is a 
very large project, but I don't like small projects anyway :) 

Sean.

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