Kill KIO (was: Repositioning the KDE brand)

[Thiago Macieira]

Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
>On Friday 10 July 2009 16:31:50 Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> KIO has existed for 9 years, its protocol has been stable. It's
>> possible to integrate with it using D-Bus. If other applications don't
>> integrate with it, it's because they don't want to.
>
>Is it documented somewhere how to integrate with kio via D-Bus?

No, I don't think so. You need to ask klauncher to start a slave for you, 
then you communicate with that slave via standard QDataStream protocol.

I tried adding D-Bus support for kioslaves before the KDE 4 release, but 
gave up because I wasn't seeing the point. The protocol isn't suitable for 
the communications we need (synchronous, blocking) and I also didn't see 
the value. 

It was making our lives harder for no real benefit. If there's real want 
for this, I can resurrect the project.

But don't make me waste my time if no one is going to use this.
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