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[Jakub Stachowski]

Dnia niedziela, 17 kwietnia 2005 18:17, Aaron J. Seigo napisał:

> would it make more sense to have these XML files installed and have a
> generic set of code that reads this in as configuration? the reason for
> this is that it would allow people to easily customize it post-install. in
> fact, depending on what would appear in these files, if it was possible to
> use a
> KConfig-friendly format we could then use Kiosk techniques to manage these
> resources during deployment ...
>
> image if a school or company could deploy KDE and define a local server as
> their "HotNewStuff server" and serve up content specifically taylored to
> their users. this would open yet another world of possibility for KDE =)

It could be also achieved using DNS-SD and dnssd lib from kdelibs. Server 
would advertise itself with type (_khotstuff._tcp) and name. Then every 
client on network would pick it up automatically. If I knew some way to 
publish stuff (for example your collection of wallpapers) then it could be 
new subfeature - 'get hot new stuff from your neighbour' :-)