KDE4: Making xdg-utils future-proof

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 10:22, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 August 2006 05:44, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Sunday 30 July 2006 09:30, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > On Thursday 27 July 2006 04:53, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > In about two weeks I hope to release the first stable version of
> > > > xdg-utils (1.0) [1]. It has been tested [2] with several versions of
> > > > KDE 3 but it has not been tested with KDE 4. That's because KDE 4
> > > > hasn't been released yet
>
> [...]
>
> > > > I would like to ask for a volunteer to do two things
> > > > 1) make sure that xdg-utils 1.0 works with KDE 4
> > >
> > > I think this is not going to be possible, xdg-utils will need different
> > > code paths for KDE4
> >
> > Different code paths are ok. It's just that those code paths should go in
> > before we release 1.0. That way applications that start using xdg-utils
> > will work with KDE4 from day one.
>
> As a xdg-utils developer I am obviously in favor of it, however I think the
> time window is really close.
>
> I am not sure how far the KDE4 development has come already, but from time
> to time it looks like there is still some porting going on and decision
> like new commandline tools or certain D-Bus interfaces are not yet on the
> time table.
>
> For example we use kfmclient in the xdg-utils scripts, but I hope we can

Well, kfmclient exists since KDE 1 as far as I know. (Therefore the name KFM: 
KDE file manager.)

> come up with a new, more describing name for KDE4.
> (the GNOME folks use gnome-vfs-$action, e.g. gnome-vfs-copy)

So personally I am not sure if we should drop this legacy such for the sake of 
nice names.

>
> Also using ktradertest for MIME type actions as we do now is more a hack
> than anything else, I'd like to see that replaced for KDE4 with something
> mor obvious :)
>
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Have a nice day!