Purpose as a KDE Framework

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Wed Dec 9 17:32:45 UTC 2015


On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Alex Merry <alex.merry at kde.org> wrote:
> 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

I did so, HTH.
https://github.com/KDE/purpose/blob/master/README.md

Aleix


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