[nepomuk-kde] Plasma activities and Nepomuk

[Lukas Appelhans]

Hey!
Am Freitag 31 Juli 2009 17:17:32 schrieb Ivan Čukić:
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> Hi all,
>
> As you probably know, plasma has the concept of activities. This is
> something that is supposed to become global concept, and not only
> plasma-local.
>
> Use-cases:
>  - When John switches to the /work/ activity, he wants the favourites in
> Kickoff/KMenu/Lancelot/Raptor/... to be the applications related to work.
+1 In Raptor we can also use the launch count/database per activity...

Btw, a bit offtopic, but shall we share favourites between those menus?

Lukas
>  - When Eric switches to the /internet/ activity, he wants the file
> open/save dialogue to contain 'Downloads', 'Pictures' etc. folders in the
> places side- panel.
>  - Terry starts KDevelop to work on his project. The rest of the
> environment switches to /kde development/ activity.
>
> Ok, enough with examples.
>
> Since the current activity is not only a plasma-thing, and could exist even
> without plasma, we (plasma devs) decided it should be published through
> nepomuk.
>
> My question here is what is the best way to do it.
>
> The most basic thing that comes to mind is a nepomuk resource, which the
> other application listen to using the sopranoStatementAdded() signal in
> SopranoModel.
>
> The other approach (DanielW pointed it out) is something like the nepomuk
> service example located in playground
> (/base/nepomuk-kde/usercontext/service/)
>
> So, what is the best way to do this?
>
> Cheerio,
> Ivan
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