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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Regarding KDE 4
From:       Rolf Magnus <ramagnus () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-07-04 10:05:50
Message-ID: 200407041205.53221.ramagnus () kde ! org
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On Saturday 03 July 2004 17:41, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> Rolf Magnus wrote:
> >Isn't that the other way round? For using kioslaves with non-kde
> > programs? I think there should be some generic vfs support that does
> > a similar job to kioslaves, but independant of KDE, and then KDE
> > should itself use that instead of (or maybe additional to) kioslaves.
>
> Why can't KIO be that VFS?

It should be independant of KDE. Would KIO work without an X server running?

> If you mean kernel-level, then KIO is ruled 
> out, but for anything else, it works just fine.
>
> So, the KIO specs are out there. The protocol is well defined, not to
> mention the libraries. Why don't other apps use them?

Maybe they don't want to make themselves depend on KDE being installed.

> It boils down to asking klauncher

... and having it running...

> via DCOP

... and having dcopserver running ...

> to start one and then use a normal Unix socket to send commands and retrieve
> answers. 
 
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