DCOP to D-BUS conversion for shellscripts

[Alanceil]

Thank you Nikolaj, this was exactly what I was looking for :)
- Tom

Nikolaj Hald Nielsen wrote:
> If you have Qt installed, the 'qdbus' utility works much the same way
> as dcop, allowing you to see all apps that provide interfaces and
> query each one for modules and funtions.
> 
> - Nikolaj
> 
> On Jan 13, 2008 7:29 PM, Alanceil <alanceil at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> In KDE4, they replaced the DCOP system with D-BUS (and as far as I know,
>> there is no wrapper for DCOP).
>> Now, I have several shellscripts that read & write data to/from Amarok,
>> using the "dcop" command, but I have not yet found a good replacement
>> for this.
>>
>> So my question is:
>> Can you point me to a tutorial that covers porting from DCOP to D-BUS in
>> shellscripts ? Everything I have found were tutorials that explain how
>> to do this in C.
>>
>> What made "dcop" easy to use was that you could just enter "dcop" and
>> get a list of all running programs that provided dcop calls. You could
>> then enter "dcop amarok" to get all calls of Amarok and so on.
>> With "dbus-send", that is no longer possible, and I haven't been able to
>> port those scripts. Is there a command (or several ones) that do just that ?
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>> - Tom
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