<table><tr><td style="">davidedmundson created this revision.<br />Restricted Application added projects: Plasma, Frameworks.<br />Restricted Application added subscribers: Frameworks, plasma-devel.
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receive a search term and provide results over DBus.</p>
<p>A metadata file should be installed with metadata for the service and<br />
path, and the remote app should implement the supplied interface.</p>
<p>By using metadata files all the current krunner architecture and config<br />
management works seamlessly, and it allows the possibility for a runner<br />
to be DBus activated if it wants to be.</p>
<p>The goal of this patch is threefold:</p>
<ul class="remarkup-list">
<li class="remarkup-list-item">To make it considerably easier to write runners where the data exists</li>
</ul>
<p>in an already running application. The plasma-browser-integration is a<br />
good example, it currently has it's own custom protocol, and ends up<br />
sending data on all the tabs only to filter it inside krunner, somewhat<br />
wasteful. With this adding searchable tabs to konversation (for example) <br />
would be a ten minute patch.</p>
<ul class="remarkup-list">
<li class="remarkup-list-item">Make it easy to write a runner in any other language. An app just</li>
</ul>
<p>needs to speak DBus with no other dependencies. Potentially even shipped<br />
via the store.</p>
<ul class="remarkup-list">
<li class="remarkup-list-item">This approach could work for runners in sandboxes.</li>
</ul></div></div><br /><div><strong>TEST PLAN</strong><div><p>Wrote new sample app<br />
Got my runner showing results<br />
Brief profiling had roundtrip time as 0ms.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R308 KRunner</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>BRANCH</strong><div><div>master</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D6390" rel="noreferrer">https://phabricator.kde.org/D6390</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>AFFECTED FILES</strong><div><div>src/CMakeLists.txt<br />
src/data/org.kde.krunner1.xml<br />
src/data/servicetypes/plasma-runner.desktop<br />
src/dbusrunner.cpp<br />
src/dbusrunner_p.h<br />
src/dbusutils_p.h<br />
src/runnermanager.cpp</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>davidedmundson, Plasma<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>plasma-devel, Frameworks, ZrenBot, progwolff, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, mart, lukas<br /></div>