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authorTimothy Pearson <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net>2011-11-06 15:56:40 -0600
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-Starting other programs
-
-In KDE 2 and KDE 3 there are several ways to start other programs from within
-your application. Here is a short summary of your options with reasons why
-you should or should not use them.
-
-1. fork + exec
-
-You never want to use this unless you have a very good reason why it is
-impossible to use KProcess.
-
-2. KProcess
-
-You want to use this if you need to start a new process which needs to be a
-child of your process, e.g. because you want to catch stdout/stderr or need
-to send it data via stdin. You should never use this to start other KDE
-applications unless your application is called kgdb :-) If you need to
-send/receive text like data to/from the process, you are probably better
-off with KProcIO
-
-3. KProcIO
-
-Like KProcess. Unlike KProcess, this class actually makes it easy to
-send data to and receive data from the process.
-
-4. startServiceByDesktopPath
-
-Preferred way to launch desktop (KDE/Gnome/X) applications or KDE services.
-The application/service must have a .desktop file. It will make use of
-KDEinit for increased startup performance and lower memory usage. These
-benefits only apply to applications available as KDEinit loadable module (KLM)
-
-5. KRun
-
-Generic way to open documents/applications/shell commands. Uses
-startServiceBy.... where applicable. Offers the additional
-benefit of startup-notification.
-KRun can start any application, from the binary or the desktop file,
-it will determine the mimetype of a file before running the
-preferred handler for it, and it can also start shell commands.
-This makes KRun the recommended way to run another program in KDE 2.