discrepancy in python bindings for plasma

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 19 February 2009, Benjamin Kleiner wrote:
> On Thursday, 19. February 2009 16:55:38 Thomas Coopman wrote:
> > I have been running in the same problem and have looked a bit at the code
> > and it looks like createConfigurationInterface is not in AppletScript so
> > there are some changes needed to solve this.
> >
> > But if it is possible to use showConfiguration and get the same dialog I
> > would like to know how too.
>
> Well, the following code emulates the wanted behaviour relatively well:
>
> 	def showConfigurationInterface(self):
> 		dialog = KPageDialog()
> 		dialog.setFaceType(KPageDialog.List)
> 		dialog.setButtons( KDialog.ButtonCode(KDialog.Ok | KDialog.Cancel) )
> 		#The assignment of actions to the buttons happens in
> createConfigurationInterface(), as proposed.
> self.createConfigurationInterface(dialog)
> 		dialog.exec_()
>
> It works nice, but you currently have to rewrite it every time you make a
> new applet, which is kind of annoying.

ah, so this is a shortcoming of the python scriptengine ... which in turn is a 
limitation in AppletScriptEngine in that you can't get the "standard" Plasma 
config dialog from there. som

ething like the attached patch which could then be used by the python engine 
to provide a nice method in the interpreter (e.g. 
createConfigurationInterface)

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