Fwd: Re: Custom shell/container in plasma for applications

[Olivier Churlaud]

I sent this to kde-devel: I worked on the context part, the motor is 
almost done.

Then we'll have just to recreate the applets.

Cheers

Olivier


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Sujet : 	Re: Custom shell/container in plasma for applications
Date : 	Thu, 26 Nov 2015 22:09:03 +0100
De : 	Olivier Churlaud <olivier at churlaud.com>
Répondre à : 	kde-devel at kde.org
Pour : 	kde-devel at kde.org



I forgot to say: if you want to try it, please use the branch of
plasma-framework mart/customShell

Cheers
Olivier

Le 26/11/2015 22:07, Olivier Churlaud a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> with the help of notmart, I created custom shell + container + corona,
> that that could be used by applications to render applets. I pushed
> all this on [1]. It's not pretty, the goal was just to test and play
> around.
>
> While doing this, I realized that the shell can only load applets
> which are in plasma/applets, the container must be in
> plasma/containment, and the shell in plasma/shell. All this is because
> of the place where KPackage is searching
>
> I think that i every application creates its own
> containment/shell/applets, the packages should be put in places that
> depend on the applet. Else, I think that it will be a mess. For
> instance, I do this for Amarok: it would be unfortunate that the shell
> tries to load an applet designed for Amarok.
>
> I don't know if it can be useful for other projects, but when I'll
> have a really basic app (it's almost there, I just want to remove some
> parts of the code and put everything in a QDialog), I'll put the
> example on the wiki. Maybe also in the example folder of
> plasma-framework?
>
> Well, it was more an information, but if you have feedback about the
> code or about what we could do about it, please speak up :D
>
> Cheers,
> Olivier
>
> [1] https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fochurlaud%2Fplasma-skratch.git
>
>
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