Data Engines [WAS: KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/dataengines/nowplaying]

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 14 July 2008, Alex Merry wrote:
> I think the problem is that there's no interface specification in data
> engines.  You just have to know what data to expect.  Some sort of runtime
> introspection is maybe the first step.

being able to publish which source would be supported, or the syntax for the 
source names would be useful. other than that .... we have the ability to get 
human readable descriptions and names for engines, the data itself are 
QVariants which are pretty easy to deal with at runtime... do you have any 
specific runtime needs?

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