Adding applications to Contour

[Marco Martin]

Hi all,

one of the features that are still missing from the Contour ui for an 1.0 
release, is the ability to easily add applications from the same add resource 
screen that is used for other stuff.
the problem is that searching trough applications works in a quite different 
way:
the add resource dialog uses the metadata engine, so only queries trough 
nepomuk, while applications are searched trough kservicetypetrader queries.
when an application is added to an activty tough, a resource of type 
Application is created and inserted in the nepomuk database.

since the activity screen is a qml only containment, it can't use stuff that 
is not a public import, so is not directly possible to offer search into 
applications there. So there are different possibilities:

* public imports of the applications/krunner models used in the mobile 
launcher: would make possible make the launcher as well a qml only applet, but 
i'm not too happy of making that almost public api

* applications dataengine: there is already one existing, doesn't really 
support any kind of filtering tough

* a daemon (or modifying strigi to do so) that indexes all installed desktop 
files and creates an Application resource for everything, seems a bit heavy, 
(and doubt it could be done for october)


i would go for either the first or second option for now..

opinions? comments or better ideas?

Cheers,
Marco Martin