Making dbus optional in Calligra

[Thorsten Zachmann]

On Wednesday, February 08, 2012 15:16:47 Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> On 02/08/2012 02:54 PM, Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> > On 02/08/2012 02:01 PM, Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> >> On 02/08/2012 02:01 PM, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> >>> On Wednesday 08 February 2012 Feb, Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> >>>> On 02/08/2012 09:47 AM, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> >>>>> On Wednesday 08 February 2012 Feb, Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> >>>>>> An example would be the "Accounts" application shipped per
> >>>>>> default with
> >>>>>> the N9 that is using Telepathy offers additional plugins via the
> >>>>>> store.
> >>>>>> Imagine how great it could have been if the "Documents"
> >>>>>> application (aka
> >>>>>> Calligra on the N9) would have offered a way to write all kind of
> >>>>>> plugins to extend that application. But yes, in some cases it#s
> >>>>>> maybe
> >>>>>> not even wanted to allow to hook into an application and extend
> >>>>>> it or in
> >>>>>> some situations there is just no need for it.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Actually, it does. There's a plugin interface for Harmattan
> >>>>> Office, but it's badly documented and the project got stopped
> >>>>> before anyone started writing plugins. And of course, adding an
> >>>>> e.g. epub import plugin would only need to refer to Calligra code.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Oha, very interesting. Can you point me at source-code /
> >>>> documentation /
> >>>> header-files / libs on the N9 that show how that API looks like and
> >>>> how
> >>>> I could write my own plugin? Or does "the project got stopped before
> >>>> anyone started writing plugins" mean it's not usable?
> >>> 
> >>> The source code is here:
> >>> http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/pool/harmattan-beta3/free/o/office-tools
> >>> /. But there is no documentation.
> >> 
> >> Fantastic. Lot of thanks! :-)
> > 
> > For those interested;
> > It is possible to write 3 types of plugins.
> > 
> > 1. Document handlers
> > Someone could integrate another application like Karbon or Plan into
> > the Documents application in a similar way lilke Words, Stage, tables
> > and poppler are integrated already.
> > 
> > 2. Actions
> > It is possible to write plugins that expose QAction's that are then
> > displayed in the menu at the right-bottom side of
> > Words/Stage/Tables/Poppler. So, someone could add a plugin like
> > "Export all images in the document to my Images-folder" to Words and
> > when a odt/doc/docx file is loaded the user can trigger that action
> > from the menu.
> > 
> > 3. Plugins that do not expose QAction's.
> > This is similar to 2 except that no actions is added to the menu.
> > Since all of office-tools is exported and since office-tools seem to
> > allow access to the underlying Calligra libs there are close to no
> > limits. Someone could for example add a spellcheck-plugin that
> > automatically checks all the words in a odt/doc/docx and paints the
> > wrong spelled words with a red underline. For such a plugin some dirty
> > hacks may be needed but from looking at the code it should be perfect
> > possible.
> > 
> > So, all in all the plugin-API is rather good. That clearly deserves a
> > blog-post and an initial plugin to show it works :) May take some time
> > till I can do something like that cause of missing time :-/ In any
> > case; great work! :-)
> 
> Uhm, not. There is one problem; plugins are expected to be in
> /usr/lib/office-tools/plugins but things installed via the store seem to
> land in /opt ... hmmmm....

I'm no to that. Lets see if I can get something that works as I also have a 
plugin to keep the current page of a document when you reopen the application.

Thorsten