Moving kdcop

[Frans Englich]

On Tuesday 03 February 2004 15:54, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> On February 03, 2004 10:05 am, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
> > a) i use khotkeys, daily, multiple times.... only once have i used kdcop
> > while it was open.  i never saw any reason why khotkeys didn't work...
> >
> > b) in normal opertions do users use khotkeys and dcop together? or is
> > this some corner case you enjoy bringing up?  i even did an rm kdcop and
> > still khotkeys works.  so i find your reasoning a bit desperaite.
>
> It is not that it is a compile time, or even run time dependency. It is
> just that without a GUI DCOP navigator it is *prohibitively* complex for a
> non-power user to discover the right DCOP commands to use to control an
> application.
>
> I totally agree that it is not a "normal user" type of thing. But it is
> certainly not a "developer" type of thing. It's a "power user" type of
> thing, which is completely different.
>
> Perhaps what this discussion has brought about, is the need for a *new*
> base package, kdepower (or some hopefully better name), that can take out
> some of the more "power user" KCMS and apps from kdebase, kdenetwork, etc.
> and put them in a separate package that would be highly recommended for
> "power users", but not newbies.
>
> Good candidates I see would be:
> - DCOP functionality of KHotKeys
> - KDE Resources KCM
> - Service Manager
> - Monitor Gamma KCM
> - KDE Performance KCM
>
> None of these are things I can see the average user even wanting to look
> at.
>
> Doing something like this would also help cut down on the KControl bloat
> that plagues us.

You got some interesting points there.

>
> What do other people think of this idea? Should it be floated further?

I got code and ideas for KControl related stuff. Personally, it would make 
things easier if we waited a little bit with this so it can be coordinated 
with the rest of my work.. I of course promise to take those KCMs up for 
discussion :)

Cheers,

		Frans