Questions about GroupManager and the lib TaskManager

[Alain Boyer]

Matthieu Gallien wrote:
> Hello,
> I really want to find time to contribute back to KDE because I really 
> appreciate all your work. So I am trying again to do some plasma related 
> contributions.
> I hope to be able to find time to work on porting the tasks data engine to the 
> GroupManager and other new bits of TaskManager lib.
> Is there anybody already working on that ?

I did some work on the tasks data engine a while back (adding a plasma 
service to interact with the tasks). I was thinking of adding support 
for the new features in libtasksmanager (essentially the grouping) but 
decided against it. I figured that everything would just get too complex 
for the concept of a "data engine" and with no real results. Currently I 
know of no applet which makes use of the tasks data engine. I was in 
contact with the developer of ActiveWindow Control 
(http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/ActiveWindow+Control?content=91258) 
and he expressed interest in using the tasks data engine. However, after 
looking at the code available on kde-look it seems that he is not yet 
using the data engine...

I don't want to derail your plans or ideas, I'm just explaining my point 
of view. Regardless, if you do decide to hack on something, I may find 
the time to help you out (specifically with the tasks data engine), 
although I'm quite busy these days.

Alain.

> Do you think it is a good idea to work on that ?
> 
> I have one concrete question about GroupManager. If I want to provide a 
> dataengine, I would like to let the visualization decide about what tasks to 
> show. How does this is related to this set of methods ?
>     bool showOnlyCurrentScreen() const;
>     void setShowOnlyCurrentScreen(bool);
> 
>     bool showOnlyCurrentDesktop() const;
>     void setShowOnlyCurrentDesktop(bool);
> 
>     bool showOnlyMinimized() const;
>     void setShowOnlyMinimized(bool);
> Should I still use them through jobs ?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Best regards