runners: same .so, different configs?

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 27 October 2009, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm planning to merge the wikipedia search plugin into KDE for 4.4. The
>  plugin is basically a MediaWiki search class, with its URL pointed to
>  Wikipedia.
> 
> I'd like to make it more generic, though. What I envision is installing the
>  plugin once, and then have one desktop file per service we want to query,
>  the desktop file basically says "use this plugin, use that URL", so
>  there's some kind of initial config attached to a plugin. Adding search
>  for techbase or userbase (or any other mediawiki) would mean merely
>  providing a .desktop file pointing to the URL of that particular MediaWiki
>  instance. I *guess* it's possible, but don't really know where to start
>  looking. The same pattern (generic .so, config in the .desktop file) can
>  probably be applied to other things as well.
> 
> What magic in .desktop files is needed for this?
> 
simply having 2 desktop files with different plugin names that load the same 
library would work i think?

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Marco Martin