Attica moved to kdereview

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Hi all,
after spending some time with libattica, we decided that now is a good point
to get a review for it and eventually have it used in KDE.

What is libattica?
A library originally started by Cornelius Schumacher to access the api of
Open Collaboration Services servers, see the spec here:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/open-collaboration-services
At this time that means access to the opendesktop.org and kde-apps.org run
by Frank Karlitschek as well as maemo.org websites.
Since the specification is open, more providers are to be expected.
For application developers this means easy access to the services such as
Friends, Contents (be it wallpapers, vocabulary files or applications...),
Events and Knowledge Base to name just a few.

It is used in the OpenDesktop and Knowledge Base plasmoids.
The new Amarok About dialog uses a local copy of attica already.
See also the contest about integrating the Social Desktop on the dot:
http://dot.kde.org/2009/10/09/social-desktop-winners
We would like to get feedback if the extended about dialog should be made
available for all of kde.

Currently libattica comes in two parts, a Qt-only library and a plugin that
provides KDE integration.
It would make sense to have the Qt-only library be part of kdesupport and
the plugin in KDE proper.
Some things can be found in a branch:
branches/work/attica/kcm - a kcm to controll open collaboration service
providers
branches/work/attica/plasma - port of the opendesktop plasmoid to the
updated lib
branches/work/attica/ocs - the plasma data engine
branches/work/attica/ocs/example - a simple example how to use attica

Another candidate I'm currently working on with Jeremy is the refactoring of
KNewStuff, which will provide some great new features such as server side
search (have you ever wanted exactly this script which just fell of the top
100 that was presented in the Get Hot New Stuff dialog?), rating and
comments.
Work on knewstuff is being done in a branch: branches/work/knewstuffrefactor

We moved attica into kdereview today.

Eckhart, Frank and I are looking forward to your comments, concerns and
suggestions.
Let us know if you're interested in integrating it with your app or need
help to get started.

Cheers
Frederik
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