[Panel-devel] Kickoff / KDE 4

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 24 September 2007, Robert Knight wrote:
> >  i can make the plugins tomorrow.
>
> Hold that for a moment.  Looking at the AbstractRunner interface it
> doesn't provide all the required information.

au contrare!

> information can usually be calculated given that.  The current runner
> interface works with QActions instead which only provides the text and
> possibly an icon.

we can (and might already, even) easily abuse QAction::whatsThis() or 
QAction::toolTip for this. i really like the idea of using QAction for these 
things; it's sooo flexible as well as standard for use with other 
widgets/interfaces.

> Looking at the Application runner, it is just a fairly simple wrapper
> around the KServiceTypeTrader class which I didn't know about before.
> Using KSTT directly within Kickoff would seem a sensible solution.

fair enough =)

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