Plasma Media Center and state machines

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Alessandro Diaferia
<alediaferia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 2010/4/2 Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com>
>>
>> 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
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> I like the extensibility idea too but i think that we are bound to the
> definition of a set of possible states. We can try to look forward as much
> as we can and define such states. Plugins will just specify which of those
> states they'll refer to. In the future, probably, we'll update our libraries
> with the states that we could have never imagined in the past :-).

Seems something like pseudo extensible :P

>
> So we can now have:
> Pictures,
> Videos,
> Audio tracks,
> Games,
> Olographic films :-)
> ...
>
> That's probably enough for now :-P
>
> Cheers
>
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> Alessandro Diaferia
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