[kde-linux] Locking widgets doesn't work correctly

[Duncan]

Anne Wilson posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:51:53 +0100 as excerpted:

> On Monday 31 August 2009 17:30:24 Duncan wrote:
>> I issue a killall plasma-desktop
>> command, from either krunner, or an open konsole window
> 
> kquitapp plasma-desktop is the preferred command.

kquitapp?  What's wrong with the standard unix style kill and killall, 
and the standard unix process signalling they use, as contrasted with 
this newfangled dbus stuff kquitapp apparently uses, according to its 
help output.

At least the unix style commands have proper command line documentation 
in the form of manpages or info pages, which I mentioned both in the 
abstract and how to invoke them.  Even without direct documentation, 
they're well known apps with behavior that has been depended on for 
years.  Compared to that, I must say kquitapp looks about as "preferred" 
as a round of Russian Roulette... and the Russian Roulette seems to have 
better known behavior and documentation.

That said, the kquitapp help output (about the best I can do in terms of 
documentation, at least without resorting to the Internet) indicates it's 
dbus based, much as kill and killall are standard Unix signal based.  I 
wonder if it's possible to use kquitapp to send dbus messages other than 
terminate/kill, as can be done with Unix signals?  Maybe it's even 
possible to tell it to save its files, without actually quitting.  dbus 
should handle that, but I'm not sure kquitapp can.  Documentation...

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