Desktop-automation?

[Gary L. Greene Jr.]

On Monday 14 February 2005 11:53 am, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Sunday 13 February 2005 19:50, Janne Ojaniemi wrote:
> > I'm currently downloading the Klax KDE3.4 live-CD, and a thought occured
> > to me: Are there any pkans to add desktop-automation to KDE? OS X Tiger
> > will have something of the sort, how about KDE?
>
> KDE usually runs on Unix like system, which means there are usually several
> kind of scripting languages available.
> Some higher level scripting languages like Python or Ruby even have direct
> KDE bindings available.
>
> > Of course, that is simply one example of the stuff this kind of
> > functionality could be used. Are there any plans for this kind of
> > functionality? With DCOP and the like, I think it could be technically
> > doable.
>
> You would have to check K3B's DCOP interface if it allows starting the
> burining process.
> If not you could run a simple script which starts the commandline tool
> cdrecord with the downloaded image.
> When using kfmclient to download the file it uses the same KDE IO techology
> as starting the download from Konqueror
>
> There are a lot of option here :)
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin

Although a more n00bie friendly scripting solution like that in Tiger could be 
very much of use...



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