Plasmoids, DataEngines & GHNS

[Thomas Olsen]

On Wednesday 22 December 2010 23:46:42 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 22, 2010, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > that checks whether X-KDE-PluginInfo-Depends (or somewhere else) contains
> > a link to an installable DataEngine and then ask the user if she also
> > wants to install that?
> 
> yes, i think that would make sense. it would be nice if this was possible
> to do in the GHNS GUI (for consistency). in any case, what's needed to
> make this happen (and is something i'd really like to see), is for
> Plasma::Package::installPackage(..) to check the metadata.desktop file for
> such dependencies and then offer to download them.

---snip----- 
 
> * hack it into Plasma::PackageStructure now by making installPackage a
> synchronous wrapper around a new method in Plasma::PackageStructure,
> perhaps called Plasma::PackageStructure::install(..). this new method
> would Q_INVOKE a protected Q_SLOT that would return a KJob * (this could
> be done internal to Plasma::Package) with notes made about fixing this in
> libplasma2
> 
> the actual mechanics of querying GHNS for package availability would
> require some work as well as it doesn't seem to be set up for random
> querying outside of the GHNS UI right now. that should be fixable though
> :)
> 
> so if we do go the route of the second option above, then there are several
> steps towards making this happen:
> 
> * adding the KJob* returning method to PackageStructure
> 
> * put the contents of the static Package::installPackage method into a new
> private method that returns a KJob* (the existing Package::installPackge
> would just wrap this new method)
> 
> * add code to check for dependencies in the metadata.desktop after the
> archive is unpacked, but before it is installed
> 
> * figure out a plan for GHNS (probably with fregl)
> 
> interested in working on any of those things? :)

I would very much like to answer yes to that question, but have a few 
obstacles:

 - I haven't coded any C++ since hacking on KDE back in 97-98.
 - I'm low on machinepower (Athlon 1700+ and ~10GB free disk space)

I'm guessing I could clean up some space and I suppose I would only need to 
checkout a subset of libplasma?
But I would still need someone to make a plan and mentor me through something 
Junior Job'ish to start with ;-)

BTW: Who is fregl?

-- 
Best regards / med venlig hilsen

Thomas Olsen

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