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[Martin Gräßlin]

On Friday 04 November 2011 18:15:52 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Friday 04 November 2011, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > On Thursday, November 03, 2011 20:26:58 Marco Martin wrote:
> > > the second solution seems more elegant, but much more error prone since
> > > every  c++ app the uses qml will have to add the import paths in the
> > > proper order or crazy problems will happen
> > 
> > We should factor out the C++ parts we duplicate in our apps and make a
> > generic class from it, Plasma::ActiveApp, that one would be the toplevel
> > view for our apps and do the importing accordingly.
> > 
> > I think there's enough "not entirely straight-forward" code in there that
> > this would be a good idea. API can be pretty minimal, I think.
> 
> yep, i agree.
> 
> for plasmoids it doesn't matter, all can be enveloped in
> Plasma::DeclarativeWidgets, for applications, perhaps a class that gives you
> a view with a main qml component loaded from a package with all the right
> things(tm) done to the engine could be nice.
This would be really nice. Would save lots of unneaded code duplication,
so strong +1
> 
> for the device specific components:
> what about installing them in
> /usr/lib/kde4/platformimports/desktop
> /usr/lib/kde4/platformimports/tablet
> 
> then /usr/lib/kde4/platformimports/tablet or
> /usr/lib/kde4/platformimports/desktop could be used depending to some
> configuration file
> 
> this means also a change in the standard cmake files to have a
> ${PLATFORMIMPORTS_INSTALL_DIR} global variable
> 
> everybody ok with this?
> 
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
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