KDE Activity Manager Daemon 2

[Ivan Cukic]

Hi all,

I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of the activity manager 
version 2.0 (aka The Doctor) which is available from The Master (pun 
intended).

Changes:

 - The main change is that the internals are completely revamped while the 
beast looks the same from outside.
   Most things inside are now job-based, with a strange job declaration 
syntax which is somewhere between a rock and a crazy place... but still 
looks more sane than the entangled code that was in it before.
  Unfortunately, until we start requiring modern C++ compilers, the code 
will look a bit strange, and will not be as optimised as it would be with 
C++11*
 - the second is that kext:Activity is abandoned, it is now replaced by 
kao:Activity (kao - kde activities ontology)
 - and, I guess, a lot of fixes also got in as a side-effect :)

Consequences:

1 - the new version will eat all your pets
2 - will work better than the previous one after it is done with (1)

Further:

 - Soon, I'll push the moving the files from/to private activities, and 
the directory reorganization.

Cheerio


* I've implemented an analogous mechanism using variadic templates, 
lambdas some other fancy stuff, which has absolutely no overhead both cpu 
instruction and memory-wise. But it needs the latest gcc to work...





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