[Panel-devel] PlasmaAppInterface, Plasma Engine

[Daniel Bruegmann]

Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 August 2006 8:13, Daniel Bruegmann wrote:
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>> What is a PlasmaAppInterface?
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>
> it's an interface, or set of methods, that plasma will provide an 
> implementation for. this allows classes in the library to make calls into the 
> application without linking to the whole application. it defines, if you 
> will, the public interface of the application.
>
> if i can find a way to get rid of it, i will, but right now some of the 
> library classes really need it. we did the same thing in kicker to increase 
> separation between components and the core app.
>
>   
>> Also, what is a Plasma Engine?
>>     
>
> as Siraj noted, it's an abstract class that provides a generic means to query 
> and receive updates on a set of data. that might mean hotplug events, network 
> interface data, process information ......
>
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Thanks! If I understand this correctly, the applets will only have 
access to the library. How will the applets be loaded/started? Are they 
stand-alone applications that call special methods and link to the 
plasma library, or are they implementations of some interface (kind of 
like a plugin/shared library/java class that gets loaded at runtime/a 
python module that gets loaded at runtime)?

Daniel