plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

[richmoore44 at gmail.com]

On 8/25/08, Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org> wrote:
> Le Monday 25 August 2008, Aaron J. Seigo a écrit :
>> * how to integrate with special buttons on these devices?
>
> FYI, I'm planning to channel this through libsolid. API wise we're close to
> have everything we need there, so it's really about upgrading the internal
> mechanics to make it work.
>
> Once that's done, I'm not exactly sure what would be the best way for plasma
> to be notified of the button events. For sharing sake a data engine looks
> like
> a good approach, except that this kind of events don't really have an
> interesting state.
>
> The alternative could be to provide an event-ish method in Plasma::Applet.
> Just like we have the shouldConserveResources() method in there.

I think an event style model makes sense. We're going to have some
non-button type stuff in the future - for example 'running out of
power', 'you have a phone call' etc. so we need a fairly generic
mechanism.

Rich.