My SoK project - Plasma D-Bus API

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Tue May 26 20:11:44 CEST 2009


On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > >   - activities
> > >      - current activity set/get/signal
> >
> > what would the signal be for?
>
> For example, a user wanted me to make Lancelot's Favourites (could also be
> applied to Raptor and Kickoff and ...) dependent on the current activity
> which is (IMHO) an awesome idea. The same goes for the places in the file
> dialogues...

that's something nepomuk needs to do, not plasma. it goes like this:

* plasma changes activities
* plasma changes it's current context
* Plasma::Context changes it in Nepomuk (missing)
* Nepomuk signals the change out (possible now, but ontology isn't set up?)

> > overly useful), but running dataengines OOP as a general thing would be
> > an interesting project indeed. one would hope it would make the UI a
> > little snappier in some cases, though it certainly would mean more CPU
> > usage and memory usage due to having two processes and some IPC traffic.
>
> That's true, though it would be a completely different project.

yep :)

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