On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Timothy Pearson
<kb9vqf@...> wrote:
>>> Does it drag in other KDE 4 dependencies?
>> Obviously it depends on kdelibs and kde-runtime like any KDE application.
>> The
>> dependencies will of course be better once frameworks 5 are released.
>>
>> Considering the impact on a running environment I would say that all
>> depends
>> whether your users are using any KDE 4 applications or none. I would be
>> surprised if your users would use no KDE 4 applications. So I think it is
>> negligible.
>
> Right away AFAIK we would lose DCOP integration,

 if that's inevitable, can i recommend using FreeDCE [with a temporary
DCOP "wrapper" to help provide a transition]?

 you would then gain the benefit of being able to run entire
applications remotely: remote admin would become an accidental
feature.  and no, it's *not* the same as running X-Windows or VNC
remotely: the amount of network traffic generated by an application
using DCE/RPC is vastly less, giving much lower latency and
responsiveness, because the GUI portion runs on the sysadmin's *local*
system, but the actual configuration etc. takes place actually on the
*user's* machine via a FreeDCE-ified service.

 l.