KDE4: Making xdg-utils future-proof

Lubos Lunak l.lunak at suse.cz
Mon Aug 7 10:15:36 BST 2006


On Saturday 05 August 2006 09:52, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 August 2006 10:22, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > I am not sure how far the KDE4 development has come already, but from
> > time to time it looks like there is still some porting going on and
> > decision like new commandline tools or certain D-Bus interfaces are not
> > yet on the time table.
> >
> > For example we use kfmclient in the xdg-utils scripts, but I hope we can
>
> Well, kfmclient exists since KDE 1 as far as I know. (Therefore the name
> KFM: KDE file manager.)
>
> > come up with a new, more describing name for KDE4.
> > (the GNOME folks use gnome-vfs-$action, e.g. gnome-vfs-copy)
>
> So personally I am not sure if we should drop this legacy such for the sake
> of nice names.

 We apparently already have. Part of kfmclient's functionality seems to have 
been moved to another binary kioclient.

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