[Panel-devel] Kickoff / KDE 4

[Robert Knight]

> we can (and might already, even) easily abuse QAction::whatsThis() or
> QAction::toolTip for this

Okay.  If you are thinking of doing that it might be better to use
QAction's 'data' property, given that the URL might not always be
suitable for display.

Down the line I think it might be worth exploring allowing people to
write scripts in languages like Python or Ruby to extend the search
facilities.  Such a system already exists on the Gnome desktop
(Deskbar).  It would be quite neat if Deskbar scripts were supported,
I don't know how hard that would be.



On 25/09/2007, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> 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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