kcheckrunning.

[Allen Winter]

On Saturday 15 December 2007 10:32:25 Allen Winter wrote:
> On Friday 14 December 2007 16:42:36 Tom Albers wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Ade noticed that startkde is using kcheckrunning:
> > 
> > --
> > if kcheckrunning >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> >     echo "KDE seems to be already running on this display."
> > --
> > 
> > kcheckrunning has been moved to playground/base/kdesktop. 
> > 
> > The startkde script does not seem to fail when kcheckrunning does not exist (on linux), but I can not imagen it works either ;-)
> > 
> > So, what would be the solution?
> > 
> Seems like a useful check to me.
> kcheckrunning is a 5 line program.
> 
> Should I bring kcheckrunning back into kdebase/workspace?
> 

FYI: I have kcheckrunning restored, building and operational in my local working kdebase/workspace.
I'll wait for objections for a day or so before committing.    Obviously, this is an X only type of thing.
Assuming that only Linux/Unix use kdebase/workspace??  Or does Mac also need it?

-Allen