Desktop communication protocol

Desktop Communication Protocol (DCOP) was an inter-process communication (IPC) daemon by KDE used in K Desktop Environment 3. The design goal for the protocol was to allow applications to interoperate, and share complex tasks. Essentially, DCOP was a ‘remote control’ system, which allowed applications or scripts to enlist the help of other applications. DCOP is built on top of the X11 Inter-Client Exchange protocol.

For the use of this acronym as it pertains to artificial intelligence, see Distributed constraint optimization.
Desktop Communication Protocol
Original author(s)KDE
Developer(s)KDE
Operating systemLinux
SuccessorD-Bus
TypeIPC daemon
LicenseGNU LGPL

DCOP continues to be used by the K Desktop Environment 3-fork Trinity Desktop Environment. DCOP was replaced by D-Bus, a message bus system heavily influenced by the DCOP and standardized by freedesktop.org, in KDE Software Compilation 4 and later.

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