Plasmoids, DataEngines & GHNS

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday, December 22, 2010, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> I'm guessing I could clean up some space and I suppose I would only need to
> checkout a subset of libplasma?

yes, just kdelibs. all the work would be in kdelibs/plasma/, but libplasma 
assumes it is in kdelibs for build purposes. it is probably workable to take 
just kdelibs/plasma/ and muck with the CMakeLists.txt file to get it to build 
outiside of kdelibs, but if you can spare the disk space, it's really not 
worth it. the sources for kdelibs are 228MB, my build dir for kdelibs is 1.9 
GB.

> But I would still need someone to make a plan and mentor me through
> something Junior Job'ish to start with ;-)

np; a plan was in the original email ... for the first item, i suppose the 
non-obvious bits are how to make a syncronous wrapper around a KJob (which is 
done using job->exec()) and how to use QMetaObject::invokeMethod to call the 
new slot (which has the side of effect of making it behave like a virtual 
method but without breaking binary compat).

the biggest work would probably be taking the contents of 
Package::installPackage and putting it into a subclass of KJob. that's mostly 
copy and paste work, and the resulting KJob subclass itself would be a private 
class and go into kdelibs/plasma/private/

i'd be happy to mentor you as you go and answer questions if you're interested 
in taking this on :)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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