Review Request: Support for the plasma:/ protocol in urls from emails/web pages and the network:/ kioslave

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

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Update:
The exec= line can also be omitted, the user will then be asked which program to start for that url.
At least for better support of the Plasma service items in network:/, the proper service handler needs to have "inode/vnd.kde.service.plasma" as supported Mimetype in its .desktop file and %U in its exec= line, so a click simply will start that handler. Just, that won't help for the webpage and email cases.

- Friedrich W. H.


On 2009-09-03 18:23:03, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
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> (Updated 2009-09-03 18:23:03)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Summary
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> Hi!
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> With commit #1019443 to kdebase/runtime/kioslave/network (done today) I added a new entry for "Plasma service" to the DNSSD (zeroconf) backend for the network:/ kioslave, which means that network:/ should now show a nice Plasma icon for such services and have a link "plasma:/hostname:port/name" connected to the entry.
> (Beware, you need to restart kded after updating your install, as the kioslave is feeded by a kded module, which has the data in the binary (yes, TODO :) )! Perhaps you even have to load the module manually, the automatic load is reported to sometimes fail:
> "qdbus org.kde.kded /kded loadModule networkwatcher").
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> Now, the listing in network:/ is one thing, one also wants to deal with the service item in Konqueror, e.g. click on it or drag'n'drop it to the Plasma workspace. The same happens if the plasma:/ url is used in web pages or emails ("Son, here you can connect to my Dinner-is-ready plasmoid, Yours, Mum"), or isn't this supposed to be done?
> With KIO there is the need of a .protocol file which describes what the plasma:/ protocol is about (see patch for prototype). AFAIK for such protocols not starting a kioslave, but a helper program ("helper=true"), that one needs to be defined here in the "exec=" line. So what would the helper program be for plasma:/ urls? For Drag'nDrops this entry is ignored, BTW, and just the url passed.
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> Diffs
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>   trunk/KDE/kdelibs/plasma/CMakeLists.txt 1019436 
>   trunk/KDE/kdelibs/plasma/plasma.protocol PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1515/diff
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Friedrich W. H.
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