question about dcop

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday 14 October 2003 09:15, Tomas Rett wrote:
> Dne po 13. října 2003 21:52 Sohail Somani napsal(a):
> > Is one forced to revert to commandline dcop? I compare similar
>
> What is DCOP, please ( I'm a beginner).

DCOP is the abbreviation for Desktop COmmunication Protocol.
It allows applications to "talk" to each other.

One usage example are applications that only allow one instance of them 
running, like KMail.
When KMail starts, it asks the DCOP server if it already knows about a 
running KMail and if yes, the newly started KMail just sends a message to 
the already running one to have it show its window and then exits itself.

See the following article by Scott Wheeler for some examples about using 
DCOP in scripts.
http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/36/KDE_Scripting_DCOP.pdf

Cheers,
Kevin
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