[Nepomuk] Nepomuk Service2

[Simeon Bird]

Hey Vishesh,

I took a look at this this evening - it all looks fine and works as
expected for me.
And it is plainly a good idea :).
The code looks good to me too, so consider this my "ship it!".

Only things that broke are:
1) the kcm and nepomukcontroller didn't recognise the file indexing
service anymore
2) nepomukctl needs updating.

but these should be easy enough to fix.

Simeon

> On 10 March 2013 14:08, Vishesh Handa <me at vhanda.in> wrote:
>> Hey Simeon
>>
>> I've been meaning to implement a Nepomuk::Service2 class which would serve
>> as an upgrade from the normal Service class. Given the problems we were
>> having with properly shutting down the storage service, I decided to
>> implement it. It's currently in the feature/service2 branch in nepomuk-core.
>>
>> The main difference is that now each service installs its own process,
>> instead of installing a library which is then loaded by the
>> nepomukservicestub. This results in somewhat lighter processes, and it makes
>> debugging a lot easier as we will no longer get reports that say
>> "nepomukservicestub" is acting up.
>>
>> Additionally, it simplifies the entire parent child relationship for each
>> service. Now each service is the top most parent QObject, and it is deleted
>> after the QApplication::exec finishes. No more wacky static variables.
>>
>> Problems -
>> 1. I've kinda broken the /servicecontrol name and description functions.
>> Implementing this would require parsing the desktop files, which I still
>> haven't done.
>> 2. The nepomukservicestub used to catch interrupts and exit gracefully -
>> This isn't the case any more. I'm not sure why.
>>
>> Do you think you could have a look at the code when you get some time?
>> Please :)
>>
>> I was also thinking of renaming the nepomukserver to nepomuk_control, since
>> it isn't really a server, but I'm afraid that might clash with the
>> nepomukcontroller.
>>
>> --
>> Vishesh Handa