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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: DNS based service discovery
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-10-28 15:57:54
Message-ID: 200410281757.55304.faure () kde ! org
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On Thursday 28 October 2004 17:47, Jakub Stachowski wrote:
> Dnia środa, 27 października 2004 23:20, David Faure napisał:
> 
> > > You need to enhance the IO-Slave protocol for notifications: If an
> > > IO-Slave supports notifications, directory listings can last infinitely,
> > > and file changes/adding/removing are signaled while the listDir-Job is
> > > running.
> >
> > That's one way to implement it.
> 
> Interesting idea - and also things like fonts://, media:// and similar could 
> benefit from this.

media:// uses KDirNotify currently. It's easier IMHO.

> > Another one - which is already available - is to use KDirNotify to emit
> > DCOP signals saying "things have changed in this directory, please relist
> > it".
> 
> Is there any way to check what directories are "in use" (opened in file dialog 
> or in konqueror) ? 
Not currently. But a kded module could keep track of that, maybe.

> It would be a waste to search for all possible  
> servicetypes all the time.
Servicetypes?? I don't understand.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
 
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