KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/notes

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Wednesday 24 June 2009 20:27:39 Marco Martin wrote:
> SVN commit 986539 by mart:
>
> if an url was dropped extract the local path since we're using QFile,
> supporting real remote urls is more a 4.4 thing

Yes, it requires the containment to find out the mimetype of a remote file, 
and then downloading this file. I've now implemented this for the Picture 
frame, and I need to fix up my patch that implementes the necessary changes in 
containment. I had hoped to get this into 4.3, but ran into issues I've not 
yet been able to fix. See my email with subject "dropping remote content 
vol.2" for the details. The idea is that we retrieve the mimetype through KIO, 
then offer the applets that can handle that mimetype. The applets then need to 
understand how to load files from remote URLs by parameter. Use cases are 
indeed dropping remote text files, HTML pages, pictures onto Plasma, but also 
passing data "by reference" (for example an akonadi:// url).

I'd like to make remote content on Plasma just work, though it'll require 
fixing some applets (not that hard, once you know what's needed).

I'm still on it, though :)
-- 
sebas

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