Desktop Communication Protocol ( DCOP ) was an inter-process communication (IPC) daemon by KDE used in K Desktop Environment 3 . The design goal for the protocol was to allow applications to interoperate, and share complex tasks. Essentially, DCOP was a ‘remote control’ system, which allowed applications or scripts to enlist the help of other applications. DCOP is built on top of the X11 Inter-Client Exchange protocol.
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10-543: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Desktop communication protocol DCOP continues to be used by the K Desktop Environment 3-fork Trinity Desktop Environment . DCOP was replaced by D-Bus , a message bus system heavily influenced by the DCOP and standardized by freedesktop.org , in KDE Software Compilation 4 and later. DCOP implements
15-607: Is serialized (also referred to as marshalling in CORBA speak) using the built-in QDataStream operators available in all of the Qt classes . There is also a simple IDL-like compiler available (dcopidl and dcopidl2cpp) that generates stubs and skeletons. Using the dcopidl compiler has the additional benefit of type safety . There is a command-line tool called ‘dcop’ (note the lower-case letters) that can be used for communication with
20-459: The client–server model , where each application using DCOP is a client and communicates with other clients through the DCOP server. DCOP server functions like a traffic director, dispatching messages/calls to the proper destinations. All clients are peers of each other. Two types of actions are possible with DCOP: "send and forget" messages, which do not block, and "calls," which block waiting for some data to be returned. Any data that will be sent
25-405: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title DCOP . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DCOP&oldid=1021097305 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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