Sven Schreiber wrote:
> thanks for your feedback; but I don't have a clue what you're talking
> about :-)
> 
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus

Dbus is an infratrusture and a common language to make different
applications on your desktop communicate.

For example, if LyX was dbus enabled, you could have a menu option "Send as
e-mail".

If you choose this menu option, the following dialog between Lyx and Kmail
through dbus would happen :

LyX : Hello KMail, are you open and available
KMail : Yes
LyX : Open a new message window, and attach this file that is here on the
filesystem
KMail : At your service
LyX : Bye
KMail : Bye

You have already something like that, the LyXServer :

 http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/PyClient

but it is not portable, not a standard and difficult to debug if something
goes wrong.

Cheers,
Charles 

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