Web Shortcuts KCM

[Kevin Ottens]

Hello,

On Tuesday 15 July 2014 10:01:50 David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 July 2014 08:15:46 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > Honestly to me it looks like a wrong move. A better move would be to have
> > the  framework (e.g. KIO) read the settings from the platform for its
> > settings (e.g. proxies).
> 
> OK about proxies, but web shortcuts is a KIO-specific thing, you won't find
> any platform settings for these.
>
> I see nothing workspace-related or platform-related in web shortcuts.
> You type "gg:foo" in a KDE app,

Which applications? I experience that mostly in krunner and the browsers. As a 
user I don't think I get to type those anywhere else.

> you get a google search - this requires a GUI for configuration, and I can't
> see why that configuration should be only available in a plasma workspace or
> on Unix.

I have to admit I would have no problem having this kind of "extra" only 
controllable in our own workspace. I mean, it makes only a difference for end 
users, and I've no problem pointing them to our workspace if they want to get 
it in full.

> Nor do we want to see each one of the 10 apps that support web shortcuts to
> have to come up with their own GUI for configuring this....

At the same time they don't need a full fledged KCM either. A pre-made piece 
of GUI they can hook up is a much leaner answer to the problem which won't 
mandate a lot of dependencies. That could just be a widget in kio/widgets for 
instance. Then it would be usable by our browser and the workspace KCM.

As I mentioned in the thread, some of those settings we're struggling with 
should be:
 - either application settings for with a widget can be more than enough (e.g. 
web shortcuts), I'm not even sure we want a widget in every cases (if 
considered power user could be just in the files with no pre-made GUI);
 - or workspace settings for which the frameworks should read them from the 
platform instead of by-passing them (e.g. proxies).

In any case that doesn't ask for a KCM in a framework IMO.

Cheers.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

KDAB - proud supporter of KDE, http://www.kdab.com

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