runners: same .so, different configs?

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Sun Nov 1 02:41:51 CET 2009


On Tuesday 27 October 2009 20:53:31 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 18:36:35 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On October 27, 2009, Marco Martin wrote:
> > > simply having 2 desktop files with different plugin names that load the
> > >  same library would work i think?
> >
> > 
> > yes; and then pluginName() would return which one it is. the trick would
> > be to  then map from those names to URLs. it could be added to the
> > .desktop files and then do a KServiceTypeTrader lookup for that
> > Plasma/Applet entry and fetch it from there.
> 
> Thanks, that was the missing piece of the puzzle in my head. :)
> 
> This involves adding a new field to the Plasma/Applet service type, so it's
>  gotta be  something generic. Maybe "-Args" ... ? I can't just put whatever
>  in there...

This works for the wikipedia plugin (it's now the mediawiki plugin). We can now just 
add a desktop file pointing at krunner_mediawiki and specify X-Plasma-Args to be the 
api.php URL of the mediawiki in question. Pretty cool actually.

Can I commit below patch to kdelibs?
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sebas

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