Plasma-based presentation view for calligra-stage

[Sinny Kumari]

I think the suggestions you gave are for displaying a plasmoid inside
kpresenter using a plasma kpart just like skrooge does it. However
this is not what the idea says.

Sorry if I was not clear in my e-mail, but we want to implement it as
a plasmoid, a normal plasmoid on the Desktop.
presentation will be opened in the plasmoid and slidehow including
other viewing feature that kpresenter have will be shown with the help
of plasmoid which is a normal desktop plasmoid.

So, in order to run presentation in plasmoid, I thought of making use
of D-Bus. But when  plasmoid and Kpresenter is communicating
kpresenter has to run and I don't want to show the ui which is
generated by running kpresenter. Here, I want to view and control
presentation within plasmoid.

So, is it possible to run kpresenter as background when we make use of
D-Bus or any other approach ?

Thanks



On 3/21/11, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Monday, March 21, 2011, Thorsten Zachmann 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_Present
>> > >> at 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.
>
> with the Plasma KPart, which is in kde-runtime, #2 is probably the easiest.
> and if done using a proper DataEngine/Plasmoid split (as in Skrooge or the
> Kontact dashboard), it could be moved to a #1 style implementatoin fairly
> easily by adjusting the DataEngines.
>
>> 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.
>
> with the Plasma KPart, it becomes a runtime dependency only. the existence
> can
> be checked for with KServiceTypeTrader, and it ships with kde-runtime so
> there
> are no further installation dependencies as of right now (this may change in
> future when we modularize kde-runtime).
>
> here's a quicky tutorial/overview for using the KPart:
>
> 	http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/ApplicationShell
>
> and there is a small example in kdeexamples/plasma/c++/kpart/
>
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