Purpose as a KDE Framework

[Mark Gaiser]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Mark Gaiser <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> I've been working on Purpose since some months now, with the intention
> >> of becoming a framework some day. Some information about it can be
> >> read here:
> >>
> >>
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/libs/purpose/repository/revisions/master/entry/README.md
> >>
> >> As it is right now it's a tier 2 framework (kcoreaddons and ki18n)
> >> plus the plugins. Plugins raise the tier to 3 because of KIO which is
> >> used by some plugins.
> >>
> >> As it is now, it's being used by: Kamoso, QuickShare plasmoid and
> >> KDevelop for patch sharing. I'd like to see it used in other cases
> >> than sharing as well as in other applications, but here's where we are
> >> at the moment. I think it's something to build upon.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts?
> >>
> >> Aleix
> >
> >
> > Hi Aleix,
> >
> > I'm trying to understand what Purpose is doing exactly.
> > I've read the readme file, but i still can't quite figure out what it's
> > doing or where i might be able to use it.
> >
> > Could you give a short summary with a clear example where to use it? That
> > would help me :)
>
> Well, the shortcut to explaining it is that it's quite similar to
> Android intents.
>
> The idea is that you identify some tasks you can group, for example:
> - share, where you can get the different services to share
> - getImage that would list your scanner, camera and also some web services.
> - addContact that would let you add a contact on your address book or
> gmail directly.
>
> Then you receive the results in a nice and simple tuple. The input and
> output arguments depend on the kind of task you are performing.
>
> I hope this made sense
> Aleix
>
> Thank you, that clears it up for me i think.

Just curious, what would have to be done for a "send file" intent?
Where a file can be send to (one of the following):
- google drive
- owncloud
- dropbox
- as mail attachment to someone
- whatever other plugin

I'm guessing each individual plugin would have to be fully implemented in
Purpose?
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