Stable DCOP Interface For Listing Collection Contents?

[Max Howell]

>> I'm not sure about how much dcop can do, but is it possible to have a
>> StringList as an argument?  Each string can specify the column of data
>> to add to the xml?
>
> I tried doing that a long time ago for another DCOP call.  I had a list
> of filenames that I wanted to pipe into the call and have it run a
> function on each.  Supposedly it's possible, but I couldn't find out the
> correct syntax...a Google search told me several different ways, none of
> which actually worked, and no one on #kde-devel had any (correct) idea.

I believe the amarok loader app passes a stringlist via the dcop cli
tool, so maybe look there for the syntax. It's something involving
square brackets I think.

I had to go into the KDE sources to figure out how, and yet we wonder
why pro software companies stick to Qt only?

Max