Plasma-based presentation view for calligra-stage

[Sinny Kumari]

Hi Thorsten,

Even I want to go with the first choice of using D-Bus communication
as it also provides better compatibility even if things in kpresenter
might change internally.
I was just wondering, if there is a way kpresenter can be started in
the background without actually showing its UI so we can make D-Bus
calls to it, is this possible? Even if its not currently, is it
possible to add this feature to it?

Thanks,

Sinny

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On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Thorsten Zachmann <t.zachmann at zagge.de> wrote:
> Hello Sinny,
>
> On Monday, March 21, 2011 04:52:08 Sinny Kumari wrote:
>> CC'ing to plasma-devel, thanks for the suggestion todd.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:31 AM, todd rme <toddrme2178 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Sinny Kumari <ksinny at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> HI!
>> >>
>> >> I am working on idea
>> >> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Project:_Plasma-based_Presentat
>> >> ion_View
>> >>
>> >> In order to do it, initially I thought, I will use D-Bus for
>> >> slideshow, next/previous slide
>> >> Later what I understood is that, kpresenter must be running for the
>> >> D-Bus call to work which is not a good approach to do.
>> >>
>> >> Also, I am not sure if I can get huge data like Slide previews through
>> >> D-Bus calls
>> >>
>> >> So, what would be the preferred way to do this? Please suggest me
>> >>
>
> I see two possibilities here.
>
> 1. Use dbus to communicate with stage(kpresenter)
>
> 2. Use plasma in stage.
>
> Using dbus has the benefit of stage not depending on plasma. It allows to
> develop the project indipendently of stage.
> True when using dbus stage needs to be running. It could also be started from
> the plasma frontend. The amound of data is not that big so that it would be a
> problem to transfer the data via dbus.
>
> If used plasma internally it should be made sure that this is an optional
> dependency that is not needed if the user doesn't want it.
>
> Thorsten
>