Review Request 123184: Add enum for ActionsType (+ fix documentation)

[Martin Klapetek]

On March 30, 2015, 5:48 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > If the host application is required to check for a property, then this should be documented as well.
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> > I'm unsure about the use-case there though. Why do we need to filter the actions? If we just want chat, wouldn't it be better to directly request it to KTp?
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> Eike Hein wrote:
>     > I'm unsure about the use-case there though. Why do we need to filter the actions? If we just want chat, wouldn't it be better to directly request it to KTp?
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>     We don't want frontends to be tied to KTp in the long run - we want other messengers (e.g. Konversation) to integrate with KPeople, and a programatic way to start a conversation using the user's preferred messenger (we already have a Default Apps setting for one), depending on presence.
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>     Something like startTextChat(PersonData *data) would be much better to hide the implementation instead of relying on action list sorting to return the preferred TextChatAction first, but as KTp is the only available backend right now this is fine for use in Plasma 5.3, there's no need to rush the API design.
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>     There was some email forth and back on this you were CC'd on btw.
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> Martin Klapetek wrote:
>     Clients are not required for checking the property, they can if they want/need to, as Eike explains. Adding more metadata to the actions only allows for better flexibility, this would also allow for example to group related actions together in say address book.
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     Still, the property is not documented.
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>     We don't need to rush an API design, but we definitely need to find ways to move away from the current QWidgets-based approach.
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>     Anyway, I guess this works, I'm happy to have it in and see how it develops.

Also I've put it with PersonData because the plugins implementing the actions do not include actions.h but they always include persondata.h because it's being passed to it. I don't think that putting it into actions.h makes too much sense because that's client only, not for plugins which also need that enum (and the plugins don't link to KPeopleWidgets either). But if you think it should go there, I'll move it there.


- Martin


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On March 30, 2015, 5:03 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
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> (Updated March 30, 2015, 5:03 p.m.)
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> Review request for Telepathy and Eike Hein.
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> Repository: kpeople
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> Description
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> Some clients need/want to filter actions based on types, this adds the actions enum with currently known actions. Plugins returning QList<QAction*> should then use this enum to set the appropriate type on the action (via setProperty).
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> I've put it to PersonData because all code dealing with actions currently need to include PersonData header and I'm not sure if it makes sense anywhere else.
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> Diffs
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>   src/persondata.h c3f99a9 
>   src/widgets/actions.h 2931ef8 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123184/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Klapetek
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