QtJolie and remote widgets

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Saturday, August 21, 2010, Dario Freddi wrote:
> However, I'd really like to remove that code from kdelibs as it definitely
> does not belong there. However, after a quick look at the code, I found out
> that such a thing would mean having a hard dependency on QtJolie in
> kdelibs.

right now, yes, but that would be easily resolved by making those code paths 
conditional. that could be achieved through ifdef's or by abstracting out the 
backend more if needed.
 
> So, basically I'd like to know if anybody is planning to maintain remote
> widgets actively to plan what I should do. I am surely fond to learn Jolie
> as I'm interested in it, so I can volunteer for at least having a better
> situation than now.

awesome :) go head, imho. there was one GSoC student working with QtTelepathy 
who was hoping to make remote widgets work over telepathy tubes. other than 
that, i think it's a wide-open area for work to be done.

> What I'd like to do is abstract the Jolie stack to let kdelibs compile
> without QtJolie itself (even if this would mean remote widgets won't
> really work). 

yes, that would be fine; it would just mean that Applet wouldn't show the 
share dialog and widgets announced on the network wouldn't show up in such a 
build. it should be pretty much completely transparent to the outside world 
without anything looking too ugly.

> I also remember some people talking about abstracting dnssd
> for using $something else, but I'll leave this for the discussion.

yes, that would also be nice (though a different topic), and is what the GSoC 
student would have needed to work on. i don't think he actually got that far, 
however? anyways, abstracting that out was something that was taken into 
consideration in the original design (which is why it is a bit more complex 
than it probably really needs to be a couple of places internally).

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