Purpose as a KDE Framework
Alex Merry
alex.merry at kde.org
Tue Dec 8 19:07:31 UTC 2015
On 2015-12-03 18:29, Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Mark Gaiser <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
Could you integrate this into your README.md? I had the same issue as
Mark, and the examples really help.
Alex
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