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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Startup of CORBA apps and CORBA services
From:       Simon Hausmann <tronical () gmx ! net>
Date:       1999-06-21 13:45:30
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On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Matt Koss wrote:

> 
> As promised, I have started some work on Connection Watcher daemon.
> While working on it ( also on Caitoo ), I have found out that I am totally
> confused about the way that CORBA apps get started.
> 
> I know that we have kded here, KServices, KRegistry  and special entries in
> .desktop files.
> However, I would really appreciate if some CORBA hacker would put it all
> together for me and possibly write a little doc ( BTW, Simon did a very nice job
> in documenting KOM and OpenParts ).
> 
> Here are some unclear facts / questions :
> 
> Konqueror is somehow scanning the .desktop files on startup.
> 1. What exactly for ?
> 2. Does it put them into some registry or something ?
> 3. How does it go together with KServices and KRegistry ?
> 
> Now we have kded here.
> 1. What is its main purpose ?
> 2. I know that we may somehow query kded for some service. But what it actually
>     means, what will be the result of such a query ?
> 3. Let's say that my app connection watcher ( I gave it a preliminary name
>     IWatcher - Internet Watcher ) can emit signal when we are connected or
>     disconnected from Internet.
>     How will the other apps get to this signal ?
>     Can they somehow query kded to get to this ?
>     Does IWatcher have to be running in order to be reachable for other apps or
>     will it be started automatically when there is a request for its service ?
> 
> I think that these questions should be cleared out, before the developers start
> to corbify their apps.

I agree :-)

I already wrote some documentation about this, but it's still stitting on
my hdd (IIRC Matthias Elter requested this). I'll polish it up a little
bit, add some last chapters, and put it somewhere ASAP.


Ciao,
  Simon

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Simon Hausmann       <hausmann@kde.org>
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