Factoring out standard system information

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 29 December 2005 19:00, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> How does that square with SK's merger into plasma? The system resource
> reading is some of the most popular stuff in SK.

the idea at this point is to offer the concept of a data engine within the 
plasma framework. then different domains (system information, presence, 
calendar info, etc..) will have an engine provided for it. this provides a 
standard discovery, loading, initialization (if any is required) and to some 
extent usage methodology for the problem of "get information of type X in a 
timely manner". 

the rational is that an applet may need hotplug info and should therefore be 
able to request that functionality; or it may want IM presence information; 
etc... applet development should focus on presentation, with information 
discovery being implemented once and shared. as you note, making it easy to 
access this information is a popular feature in SK, so we are building on 
that concept to provide a more generic mechanism for this sort of thing.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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