| XVampireX | What's workbench about? |
| ForgeAus | yeah old style... I agree... workbench is the amiga desktop its the gui for it |
| Sho_ | AmigaOS of course also paving the way for some KDE tenets in some ways |
| ForgeAus | Sho? really? interesting AmiWM is just too basic, almost no configuration |
| Kyral | Hey stupid question... |
| Sho_ | ForgeAus: You could say ARexx was a precursor to DCOP in terms of what end-users used it for |
| ForgeAus | whereas if AROS's desktop was in Linux, itd be awesome! Sho, that's kinda above my head... I've heard of them but I don't know enough about what those things actually are/do |
| Kyral | If my college campus switches over to Exchange from Lotus Notes...will KMail still be able to use my college email? |
| ForgeAus | Rexx is a programming language I know that much ARexx is Amiga's Rexx? |
| Kyral | Its used on the Z-Series right? I only know about REXX from IBM's Master The Mainframe competitions |
| ForgeAus | yup Rexx/Regina, for PC mostly |
| Kyral | Actually I think I have a hello world on my computer... |
| ForgeAus | I think theres a NetRexx or something ? |
| Sho_ | ForgeAus: Many AmigaOS applications had an "ARexx port" over which they exported commands and functions to ARexx, making them scriptable externally from ARexx - similar how you can script many KDE applications via the interfaces thex export on the DCOP bus |
| Kyral | But anyone know anything about the thing I asked about KMail? |
| XVampireX | Sho_: I wonder what dbus is gonna do for KDE then |
| ForgeAus | your saying what? Dcop is basically Rexx scripting for KDE?.. isn't KDE based on QT? (for GUI) |
| Kyral | ForgeAus: DCOP is interprocess communication |
| Sho_ | ForgeAus: No, DCOP is an inter-process communication bus that KDE applications and components use to talk to each other, and also allows end-users to access the interfaces applications export on the DCOP bus |
| Kyral | So its also akin to Unix Sockets and stuff |
| Sho_ | ForgeAus: DCOP can be uses from nearly any scripting language |
| Kyral | Wait...can I use MS Exchange to interlink with KOrganizer? |
| Sho_ | ForgeAus: But the things you can do with it as an end-user - automate applications to a degree, glue them together - is similar to what ARexx was used for on AmigaOS |
| ForgeAus | MS exchange?... um dcop to KOrganizer sounds right but how do you get stuff from MS Exchange? |
| XVampireX | Sho_: By the way, I find it cool what Plasma is doing, I guess they want to make it completely customizable so that there could be a plasmoid for different panels and so on... so perhaps I'll try to make a plasmoid for something unique :) |
| Kyral | ForgeAus: Just got an email from the head of our OIT saying they will be switching from Lotus Notes to MS Exchange for Email and Calendaring service |
| Sho_ | Kyral: I think the Kontact page had a info about Exchange |
| Kyral | ForgeAus: I don't use their Webmail so I assume POP3/IMAP functionality will stay the same but... |
| Sho_ | ForgeAus: Start 'kdcop' some time and browse the interfaces on the bus |
| ForgeAus | yeah Kyral I'd assume same pop3/imap accessing to the mail server shouldn't b a problem kewl Sho |