Moving kdcop

[Lubos Lunak]

On Tuesday 03 of February 2004 12:07, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
> On Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 05:16, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
> > On Monday 02 February 2004 06:18 pm, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
> > > On Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 00:04, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
> > > > On Monday 02 February 2004 04:50 pm, Frans Englich wrote:
> > > > > Is not kdesdk a better place for kdcop?
> > > >
> > > > i put my vote in for kdesdk.  BTW i have started partifying it so
> > > > we can use it with kdevelop better.  Lets plan on moving it to a
> > > > RO part and put it in SDK... after all normal humans should never
> > > > need it to run KDE.
> > >
> > > So normal humans are not supposed to use KHotKeys?

 Actually the theory is that they'd at most import files with actions created 
by others, so most of them really wouldn't need kdcop. Having a button that 
does nothing or says 'install kdesdk' is not a very nice thigh though.

>
> (...)
>
> > > Please be nice and reply to Jason Keirstead's mail and tell us why
> > > you don't share his point of view.
> >
> > Im not sure rational sense applies here, since its been ignored so
> > far, but its as follows:
> > 	KDCOP is not needed for normal out of the box operations for
> >       KDE
> > 	KDCOP is used to extend KDE in a method that mostly programmers
> >       and sysadmins will use.
> > 	KDCOP is not accessed from the kmenu, and is only used by those
> >       who know about it (shallow, but a point none the less)
> >
> > 	So with all these givins im going to say KDE SDK makes the most
> > sense.
>
> OK, fine, I have no problem with that - I only have a problem with the
> resulting situation:
>
>     If you move kdcop to kdsedk *without* also moving KHotKeys,
>     the result would be that KHotKeys would be runnable from base,
>     but the kdcop functionallity would be missing.
>
> So this would mean: cripple another base program by moving kdcop away.
>
> Not good.
>
> So either ove *both* of them, or neither.

 If you move KHotKeys away from kdebase, the simpler way of setting up 
shortcuts for menu entries in KMenuEdit and the keyboard shortcuts module 
would stop working.

 Is this all only about that small thing called kdcop? If kdebase is so large, 
why not moving e.g. most of the wallpapers from it? Ten times more space 
saved.

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Lubos Lunak
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