Plugins: Use Qt plugin art. or XML?

[Chani]

On July 13, 2008 20:28:51 Kelly Miller wrote:
> As I believe I've mentioned before, I'm working on a plasmoid for
> integration with various media players.  I'm asking, would it be a better
> idea to use the Qt plugin system to add new media player interfaces, or
> some sort of XML file system?  I believe the latter is easier to make, but
> the former is more flexible and keeps the player-specific DBus stuff out of
> the man code base...

I'm not sure... what exactly would such plugins do? what sort of integration 
do you mean?

I'd imagine that, if it were done the Plasma Way, there would be a dataengine 
for each media player (or maybe just one for those that have that standard 
dbus interface I vaguely remember hearding of?), and then either one or 
several applets providing the UI... could you use essentially the same UI for 
any media player, or would they all have to be different?

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