International OSS Desktop Conference aKademy 2004

Torsten Rahn writes "The KDE Project is pleased to announce the successful completion of the KDE Community World Summit ("aKademy 2004") in Ludwigsburg (Germany) taking place from August 20th to 29th. With more than 230 KDE core developers, usability and accessibility experts, translators, editors and artists participating, the event is expected to have a huge and lasting impact on the next major releases of the leading Linux and Unix desktop environment. In addition, 270 visitors from the KDE user base and from other Free Software projects brought the total number of attendees to 500. The international participants, coming from 5 continents, took part in 65 talks, 10 full-day tutorials and numerous BoF-meetings over the course of 10 days. Thanks to this huge turnout and the numerous activities, the event evolved into the largest conference ever held that focused on a single open source desktop environment."

Comments

Re:flamewars? doncha have something better to do?

[kalpaha]

If you think KDE is lacking a standardized general user accesible IPC port, you obviously haven't heard of DCOP, which can be used to control programs from the command line (with the dcop utility), python or perl scripts, C++ programs, etc. and is easy to add support for.

Some command line examples of dcop in action:

dcop kmail default checkMail

tell KMail to check for new mail

dcop kwin default setCurrentDesktop 4

switch to desktop 4

dcop kmail default compactAllFolders

tell KMail to compact all folders

dcop kdesktop default logout

logout

dcop konqueror default openBrowserWindow www.kde.org

open new konqueror window with www.kde.org

I am _not_ new here, but it never ceases to amaze me how people are so eager to flame away without any factual support for their rants.