Question about DCOP-Features and Future

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 14 December 2005 11:20, Ingo Malchow wrote:
> No, this is unfortunately no option, because most of our customers have a
> 24/7 work.

fair enough. though i don't really know of any _desktop_ envs that are suited 
to zero-downtime in practice. obviously a place for improvement.
 
> > actually, you're the second person i've heard ask this. though that still
> > doesn't make the rate of incidence very high =)
>
> Is that really not wanted from the users so often? I think it could be nice
> in business solutions with kde. Would be great to hear some other thoughts
> about that issue.

it would be nice. however, for it to work one needs to ensure that every 
application has a single point of entry that causes a reload of all of its 
configuration and ensures that those changes are propagated out to every 
corner of the application. this can be rather trickier than it sounds for 
some apps.

kicker takes the brute force approach and everything simply reloads and 
reconfigures itself on demand. in practice this works ok, but may not be 
suitable to all applications.

in any case, i really don't see how to achieve this without making it a design 
requirement in every single application individually. we can expose a 
standard mechanism to trigger the re-configuration, but app developers would 
need to take care of the "last mile"

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Aaron J. Seigo
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