4.4 call for runners (ideas)

[Luiz Felipe Talvik]

Integration with amarok, like the one that katapult had.
Type "bee 5th" in katapult and the 5th Symphony started playing.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Marco Martin<notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 24 July 2009, Jacopo De Simoi wrote:
>> > * generic dbus runner (??)
>>
>> let me elaborate on this;
>> what I meant is some kind of simple plugin-based runner which would bind
>> krunner and dbus; the runner would load some (e.g.) xml's which would bind
>> some query terms to dbus methods; each entry of the xml would provide icons
>> and descriptions along with special values handling specs (as for "max"
>> "min" "off" "on", so on and so forth) I believe this would make much easier
>> the integration with krunner by applications (even third-party apps), as
>> writing the specs for the .xml file would be only slightly more difficult
>> than writing a .desktop file.
>
> since queries would be very simple, like "volume max" (and must be otherwise
> defies the concept of krunner) maybe a desktop file or anyways something that
> can be parsed in a KConfigGroup would be enough, each application would
> install its own little file  in share/apps/krunner
> now is to be seen how to manage eventual clashes of commands
>
>> One obvious possible drawback for this is that if each app spawns its own
>> runner, we would see either a plethora of new runners coming up in the
>> (already quite crowded) configuration dialog if we consider each plugin as
>> a separate runner, or we would lack fine control on which app to control if
>> we decide to consider each plugin as part of the same runner.
>>
>> I'd like to hear your feedback about this.
>> Thanks
>>    Jacopo
>>
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