Plasma Media Center and state machines

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 02 April 2010, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote:
> (My ideas, be free to kick ;)
> 
> Hi Christophe, now I'm able to understand most of what you've
> proposed. Somehow, I don't like having just one state machine for the
> whole MC, the main reason being that we're going to support
> extensibility through custom plugins, so the MC can no longer assume
> that it knows exactly how many states are present.
> What I propose is not altering the libraries, but to have a state
> machine for each component (component as in the containment,
> controller applet etc). Though I don't have code to show that right
> now (i'm writing a small Qt app to demo it), I'll try to explain a
> sample working-

While i share the concern over extesibility (and wouldn't know how to do it 
with a single global state machine) how a state machine for each component 
would fix that?
a part every plugin being a omplete set of new applets...

Cheers,
Marco Martin