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

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 July 2008 02:51:53 JST, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > in the case of weather, which is the same concept, the engine itself
> > supports plugings and things are agregated in the dataengine that the
> > visualization interacts with.
>
> Hmm.. perhaps that plugin model could be generalized and supported by
> plasma then, rather than each data engine having to roll its own?

it could be, i suppose. it's not like the KDE plugin system is extremely 
difficult, though.

any specific proposals?

> Is the only way for Joe Bloggs to achieve that by getting support for his
> media player integrated into KDE's data engine?

yes. and forcing, er, encouraging cooperation in this manner is a wonderful 
thing.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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