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This is great!
by Kevin Colyer on Wednesday 24/Jan/2007, @01:50

This is good news - I like this idea very much. It answers that question why do I have so many progress dialogs floating all over my desktop. I often need to know how a print job is progressing, how a file transfer is going. Having it all in one place will be so much clearer for me and new users. Ever seen a newbie look for info on a print job on any OS let alone KDE?

Will it be easy to make hooks for CLI apps? I guess with Dbus it could be. I would love a hook to rsync so I can see how a my home brewed backup is going!

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Re: This is great!
by Thiago Macieira on Wednesday 24/Jan/2007, @09:35

If rsync -- or any tool -- outputs a percentage, it should be quite simple to write a bash script reads from a pipe, creates an entry in the uiserver and updates it. An example tool I can think of right now is cmake & KDE's own build.

How cool would it be to see the KDE build percentage progress in the uiserver? :-)

If you need to implement actions like "pause", "cancel", etc., you will find that bash+qdbus won't suffice. Scripting languages like QtScript, Ruby or Python will come in handy then.

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