Reading command output from plasmoid

[David Baron]

On Sunday 21 February 2010 18:31:53 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On February 21, 2010, Nikola Milenković wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i would like to join the Jam Session, and I have an idea for my plasmoid,
> > but I'm having a little trouble with it.
> > I would like to read output from console command, (eg. ps -e or la). I
> > can run command with: plasmoid.runCommand, but how can I read output from
> > it?
> 
> this is provided by the exec DataEngine.
> 
> this really should be provided as a Plasma::Service plugin; maybe i'll get
>  to that while i'm here at tokamak.

Needs be done asynchronously in a background thread unless one knows it will 
always be instantaneous.

Qt4 classes are available, probably the backend used by the above. Dataengine 
will be asynch if used properly. I might try it with qt4 stuff.