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On Wednesday 14 February 2007 01:52, Matthew Allen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got an xlib application that I want to make "kde compatible" in the
> sense that it'll use KDE settings when running under KDE but happily run
> outside KDE as well. To do this I used to just read the relevant config
> files and parse out information like global font settings and colours etc.
> But this is kinda hard to maintain and not really the smart thing to do. =
So
> I've given that up and written a little shared library that directly links
> to KDE's libraries, so that I can use the KDE api's to query the infomati=
on
> I need. In the case that my app is running under KDE it can dynamically
> load my little add-on.

In some cases it might be easier to create a helper KDE application, which=
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gets all the information you need and passes it back to calling application=
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as its output.

Of course the disadvantage is that it takes longer than using a library, bu=
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it is also more robust, since a crash of the helper can't crash your=20
application.

Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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