[Nepomuk] Formatting property values for Dolphin side-panel

[Sebastian Trueg]

Sadly I never go around to finishing this framework. Thus, there is no
method to handle the formatting of property/value pairs. It is, however,
something that we need. Dolphin currently has a little hack with some
hard-coded use cases. Obviously that is not the way to go for the future.
The problem was that we need some kind of rule system which allows to
describe how values are to be formatted. Input for the rule should be
the triple (resource, property, value(s)) or at a later stage even more
information like creation time of the triple and so on.
So I would love to have some input on a nice rule system.
It would be great to get that into 4.6.

Cheers,
Sebatian

On 08/22/2010 07:12 PM, Maarten Hermans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am struggling with the use case described in this older blogpost by
> Sebastian Trüg:
> 
> [[
> ... the values can be literals such as strings or integers or doubles
> but they can also be other resources. We do not want to display
> resource URIs to the user. The formatValue call triggers an
> experimental lib which uses formatting rules to convert resources into
> strings. An example: a person resource has firstName and lastName
> properties. The rule would then state that they are to be combined to
> build the label.
> ]] http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3843
> 
> The described formatValue() seems to be what I am looking for
> (displaying names and titles of resources associated with the file in
> Dolphin), but I cannot locate the call (not in the PyKDE bindings I'm
> using, nor in the original API as far as I can see).
> 
> What is the recommended approach to do this (esp. in a OpenSuse 11.3
> install [Qt: 4.6.3, KDE 4.4.4])? Is it doable using the bindings?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Maarten
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