Plugins: Use Qt plugin art. or XML?

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 14 July 2008, Kelly Miller wrote:
> I imagine it's obvious here, but what I'm trying to do is design an applet
> that can be easily added to, so that we don't end up in the situation we
> have been in before (where there are multiple different now playing applets
> because each one supported different media players).

thanks for the explanation.

what you probably want to do then is work on the existing nowplaying 
dataengine in kdebase. you could add plugins to it, and then any applet built 
won't have to worry about this at all.

as for play/pause/etc, the engine should implement serviceForSource and 
provide a Plasma::Service that allows control of the player.

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