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<p style="margin-top: 0;">On August 3rd, 2011, 8:13 a.m., <b>Aaron J. Seigo</b> wrote:</p>
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<a href="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102175/diff/2/?file=30633#file30633line134" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">plasma/dataenginemanager.cpp</a>
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<td colspan="4"><pre style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 140%; margin: 0; ">Plasma::DataEngine *DataEngineManager::loadEngine(const QString &name)</pre></td>
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<td bgcolor="#c5ffc4" width="50%"><pre style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 140%; margin: 0; "> <span class="c1">// Try installing the engine. However, it's too late for this request.</span></pre></td>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">this failure case is going to be trickier to address than the scriptengine failure case below. one possibility would be to have a "delayed load" DataEngine that is returned which waits on the return from the ComponentInstaller.
it could cache all requests made until the ComponentInstaller returns. on success, it would then load the actual DataEngine and forward all calls made thus far to it (object connection requests, etc; basically replaying its internal state). on failure, it would flush all of these cached requests and behave just like the NullEngine.</pre>
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<pre style="margin-left: 1em; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">A way to make things actually work without restarting everything would definitely help indeed. But it's not going to be easy to get working indeed. I'll see if I can improve this in a followup patch.</pre>
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<p>On August 2nd, 2011, 3:49 p.m., Kevin Kofler wrote:</p>
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<div>Review request for Plasma.</div>
<div>By Kevin Kofler.</div>
<p style="color: grey;"><i>Updated Aug. 2, 2011, 3:49 p.m.</i></p>
<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Description </h1>
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<pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">This is part of my GSoC 2011 work. Expect more Plasma patches related to this in the next few days.
In particular, the currently unused "force" feature of the new API is intended to be used if the user just installed a widget which explicitly requires a given engine. (By default, prompts are not repeated within a session to prevent flooding the user.)
The implementation is based on PackageKit. It requires PackageKit >= 0.6.16 and either Apper trunk or the backported patch from http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=kpackagekit.git;a=blob;f=kpackagekit06-plasma.patch;h=208427aa6cc072164b6a9ba48a30a954657ef892;hb=HEAD to have any effect. If the requirements are not met, no change will be noticeable at all, because the asynchronous call will simply fail and any errors are (intentionally) discarded. (We don't want to annoy the user with a pointless error dialog if he/she doesn't have PackageKit installed or his/her version is too old.)
PackageKit will also only actually find the relevant packages if the distribution is using RPM and yum (at this time) and if the RPMs in the repository have been built with my Provides generator. But that shouldn't be Plasma's problem. Any work in that area needs to happen on the PackageKit or distro side. Support for GStreamer plugins has been implemented in other PackageKit backends too, so it should also be doable for Plasma engines. And if a distro wants to use something entirely different from PackageKit, that's also possible, this is what the abstract EngineInstaller API is for.
The API is public because it might be useful outside of libplasma, and it is quite simple and generic, thus keeping BC should not be a problem.</pre>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Testing </h1>
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<pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Verified that it compiles without errors and that it successfully prompts for a missing Python script engine on Fedora 15. (The patch is against master (4.8), but applies without changes to the kdelibs 4.6.5 in Fedora 15, which is how I tested it.)</pre>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Diffs</b> </h1>
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<li>plasma/CMakeLists.txt <span style="color: grey">(ef411df)</span></li>
<li>plasma/dataenginemanager.cpp <span style="color: grey">(988fe76)</span></li>
<li>plasma/private/componentinstaller.cpp <span style="color: grey">(PRE-CREATION)</span></li>
<li>plasma/private/componentinstaller_p.h <span style="color: grey">(PRE-CREATION)</span></li>
<li>plasma/scripting/scriptengine.cpp <span style="color: grey">(fb8cd1a)</span></li>
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