How to get Akonadi notes onto Plasma?

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 22 October 2009, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 October 2009, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to get notes from Akonadi onto a plasma workspace.
> >>
> >> I've been reading some of the apidocs and I can't figure out if I need a
> >> data engine, whether I need one Plasma::Applet per note, whether I need
> >> a 'manager' plasmoid that manages all others, keeping them up to date,
> >> and adding/removing etc.
> >>
> >> In Akonadi I just create an EntityTreeModel which has api for all of
> >> that stuff. If I can forward those calls to plasma somehow, that would
> >> be good, but I need a starting point. Do I create my model in a Applet,
> >> or a Data Engine etc?
> >>
> >> Also, if that's completely the wrong track, please set me straight.
> >>
> >> All the best,
> >>
> >> Steve.
> >
> > you can directly use it, or wrap around a dataengine (and doing a service
> > for writing new ones) not sure what makes more sense here.
> 
> Directly using it might be good. But what do I need to implement to get the
> notes onto plasma? Should I implement a plasma applet as you describe
>  below, create the model in that, and connect its signals to slots that
>  create new extenders?

a plus of doing a dataengine is that it could be recicled around for other 
applets too

> 
> > for the notes i would do a sngle applet, with an extenderitem per note,
> > so by default they would all look stacked but they could be detached and
> > dragged around
> 
> Apparently that has other drawbacks that the notes don't look like notes or
> something. The conclusion from getting help on irc is not to take that
> approach.

the only roblem is that this way should have the standard background, but for 
me that's a plus, custom drawn applets should be avoided as much as possible

> What is the alternative?
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Steve.
> 
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Marco Martin