DCOP is a very powerful mechanism and can even be used with XML Remote 

Procedure Calls (through the XML RPC to DCOP bridge), but one has to be 

aware of the fact that DCOP is an unencrypted protocol. By using standard UNIX 

security measures for the ICE communication sockets, users should not be able 

to attack DCOP sessions from other users.

Kommander

The developers of the Quanta+ Web development framework introduced a new 

toolkit called Kommander, which can be used to design KDE Dialogs and 

widgets by using 

kmdr editor

 (a program derived from QT Designer) and 

executing them with 

kmdr executor

. Kommander uses XML based GUI 

description files with embedded DCOP scripts (for KDE program automation, 

Signal Slots, internal script execution, etc.), which can be written in any language 

able to speak the DCOP protocol (Bash, Python, Perl, Java, JavaScript, etc.). 

Briefly, Kommander allows you to write KDE dialogs by using the powerful DCOP 

mechanisms itself. It is already used at many places inside Quanta+ (DCOP is 

also used for the inter component communication in the KDE PIM framework 

Kontakt). Take a look at Figure C 1 to see how the integrated DCOP 

development with 

kmdr editor 

looks and can be used for your own purposes. 

Figure C 1   Integrated DCOP development with Kommander

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