A new kind of package

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 08 July 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 5, 2011 12:02:26 Marco Martin wrote:
> > * would be good to have something that is neither and applet nor a
> > containment, but uses the plasma package mechanism anyways
> 
> agreed.
> 
> they would need to share a lot of the same bindings, which i suppose means
> it would need to be kept close to the QML bindings used by the QML
> plasmoids?

probably.
even tough probably not much, since there would not be a plasmoid object there 
(some functions of it that could be needed?).

i can see to be shared bindings to servicejob (the other more primitive one 
already shared by libkdeclarative or stock in qml) and then the 
networkaccessmanager for ppackage:// (there is already one in libplasma, it 
could be added there even tough it could require some ugly gymnic to discover 
what is the proper package to pull from)

> on a related note: i find i keep replicating a lot of our JS bindings (just
> did some more of that in the SLC DataEngine the other day) ... we're really
> going to want to find a way to share these bindings more generically imho.
> something for later, though.

yep (we could need desktop scripting in plasma mobile too, mamking even 
another case for it)
there too, there are the usual semi primitive types bindings like rects or 
icons, that can be easily library-fied, but is not much, then there is the 
actually specific parts where there isn't that much to do..

Cheers,
Marco Martin