Moving kdcop

[Luke Chatburn]

The key concept of DCOP is to facilitate users (aiming roughly at SMB office
workers) manipulating the system to produce quick solutions to problems. One
of the defining examples I have heard given, is to allow secretaries to
manage the schedules of a dozen managers at the same time and organise
meetings in an automated way.

DCOP is very much an end-user technology, and it is impotent without the
ability of users to investigate applications.

-Luke

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roberto Alsina" <ralsina at kde.org>
To: <kde-core-devel at kde.org>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: Moving kdcop


>
> > On Monday 02 February 2004 22:57, Stephan Binner wrote:
> >> On Monday 02 February 2004 22:50, Frans Englich wrote:
> >> > Is not kdesdk a better place for kdcop?
> >>
> >> You forget to say why. kdcop can be used by users.
> >
> > Every app can be used by users. This is not a joke, for every single app
> > out
> > there it is usable for at least one user. But we can't force it on
> > everyone,
> > the resources in terms of usability and harddisc space simply not exist.
> >
> > If someone need to mix with KDE internals, those hackers can install
> > kdesdk,
> > just as everyone install koffice if they need office suite
functionality.
> >
> > Sounds reasonable?
>
> kdcop lets power users explore enough to create nice stuff like the
> googleclip thing from a couple of days ago.
>
> kdesdk usually has a dependency on a real development environment, which
> those power users don't really need.
>
> And come on, just how big *is* kdcop?
>
> It's 100K here, let's say 200K with docs? 70K gzipped? In a 9MB package?
;-)
>
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