Moving dnssd to kdelibs

[George Staikos]

On Wednesday 01 December 2004 10:53, Jakub Stachowski wrote:
> I would like to propose moving kdenonbeta/kdnssd/dnssd (simple library
> build on Apple's mDNSResponder for discovering and publishing services
> using DNS-SD aka ZeroConf aka Rendezvous protocol) into kdelibs. Reason:

   Sounds like a good idea to me, though I haven't looked at it yet.  In 
principle it would be great to have this.

> - random idea I just got (not even started yet) for easy launching remote
> apps (not whole session): add new submenu to standard k-menu: 'K -> Remote
> application -> (list of hosts) -> (normal k-menu for every host) '. List of
> hosts could be populated by searching for _remoteapps._tcp (advertising
> location of /usr/share/applications and ssh port) or something similar.
> List of applications could be populated by reading
> fish://user@host/usr/share/applications and parsing just like local menu,
> but any 'exec=app' would be changed into 'exec=kdessh -X user at host app'
> (kdessh would have to be able to enable X11 forwarding)

  Nice idea!

   Any ideas about integrating this with KNetAttach?

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