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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Proposal: A general purpose non-gui, non-interactive process
From:       Brad Hards <bhards () bigpond ! net ! au>
Date:       2003-08-11 8:01:17
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 07:53 am, Gary Cramblitt wrote:
> Sometimes one needs to launch non-gui, non-interactive processes, which
> run in the background, while simultaneously providing some sort of
> on-screen indication of the process' progress.  For example, suppose you
> want to run RedHat's updatedb command, and be notified when it is
> completed.  You could run this in a terminal, and use KDialog to pop up
> a message when completed, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to do this
> without resorting to shell scripting and konsoles?
Based on the feature list, aren't you going to need some kind of scripting 
interface anyway?
If you do that, might it be better to wrap klauncher and just do the whole 
thing with DCOP?

Brad
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