KDaemonApplication

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 27 May 2003 13:21, Jordi wrote:
> 
> hi,
> In nowadays KDE there are several non GUI apps like kded klauncher... that are 
> non-GUI apps but as they use KApplication or KUniqueApplication has a lot of 
> dependences and  overload.
> 
> I'm also i'm trying to run parts of kde (for instance konqueror) in a minimal 
> system,  when i run kded  "standard theme crystalsvg is not found" message is 
> displayed. It's not a problem for me but it seems pretty bad design having 
> something like kded or klauncher wondering about icon themes.
> 
> What about KDaemonApp or something like that, with as little dependencies as 
> possible (not initialiting as many things as kapplication does), to be able 
> to write lightweight daemons. Or at least to have daemons that knows as 
> little as possible about GUI.

The boolean arguments to the KApplication constructor allow to tell it
that no GUI will be used in the application (=> no need for KDaemonApp or so).
Note that this means not even a dialog box.
kded has so many modules that it's impossible to be sure it won't ever pop up
a message box. Disabling GUI support in klauncher sounds good though.

-- 
David Faure -- faure at kde.org, dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Qt/KDE/KOffice developer
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions