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

[Rob Scheepmaker]

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Cool, nice work. Indeed support for drag&dropping those urls and 'opening' them should still be added. I've added that to my TODO. I'm currently at tokamak, but will be going away tomorrow morning and have some other stuff to do as well, so I don't think I'll be able to do this here, but I'll make some time next week.
I'll create some function to the plasma-desktop dbus interface probably, create some small helper program that invokes this, and of course add the drag&drop support which is all quite trivial. This will all greatly help in making the remote widgets feature more discoverable and accessable.

- Rob


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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