Creating Plasma::Containments or Plasma::PopupApplets via the scripting api

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 23 April 2009, Richard Dale wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Richard Dale <richard.j.dale at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 22 April 2009, Richard Dale wrote:
> >>> then a Plasma::Containment is created for the scripting applet.
> >>
> >> yes; not a well documented feature.
> >>
> >>> We were actually discussing Plasma::PopupApplet, and I wondered if a
> >>> similar addition to the Applet::load() code, along with a
> >>> 'Plasma/PopupApplet' ServiceTypes, could be added to handle those?
> >>
> >> absolutely.
> >
> > Please find a patch attached to add scripting PopupApplets then. I
> > don't have a build environment for the kdelibs trunk at the moment and
> > so I can't test it yet, but if anyone else could have a look at it and
> > commit if ok, that would be great.
>
> OK, I've got a version of kde 4.2 kdelibs to build and I've commit a
> version of the patch that compiles to both the trunk and 4.2 branches.

great...

> Should we add Plasma::GLApplet as another scripting applet type for
> completeness?

that's a good question; probaby, though it would require gl bindings to be of 
any use... can't hurt anything, i suppose :)

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