DCOP to D-BUS conversion for shellscripts

[Ian Monroe]

On Jan 13, 2008 12:29 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

Note that its pretty likely that the Amarok 2 API will change a bit
before its released. However we don't plan on removing any calls,
maybe just moving stuff around. So anything you do should be easy to
port still.

Ian Monroe