About pastebin applet

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Thursday 28 January 2010 17:41:09 Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been thinking about a nice way to improve the current pastebin applet
> and it's dataengine/service. So I'll share my ideas with you and you can
> say whatever comes to your mind :)
> 
> First of all, pastebin started as a plasmoid to just post text on
> pastebin.ca service. Willing to allow more than one server and at the same
> time don't change it tooooo much (what actually happened looking
> backwards) I went to a simple and not elegant solution but that actually
> solved the issue and Sebas even gave some love to the UI to look better.
> Imagebin support came easily after this.
> 
> However, besides have been elected one of the top plasmoid by linux
> magazine it actually sucks in terms of architecture. Last tokamak while
> one compilation or another of KDE for the mysterious device(TM) I tried to
> create a
> dataengine/service from the plasmoid code to make it better and even allow
> other plasmoids to make use of the service itself.
> 
> Currently, in order to expand it making it support more services (each user
> on Earth seems to have it's preferred service) is painful. Most of the
> imagebin services are duplicating the http POST code got from KIPI plugins
> source code and to enable more services we need to recompile the whole
> thing and the support comes out on next KDE release.
> 
> Here comes the new idea: rewrite it to be based on plugins (easily
> achievable) and change it's name to something more user friendly like
> "Share It!" or something else.
> 
> Motivation: based on simple plugins we can provide stuff like GHNS for new
> services making it easier to expand it, rewrite the plasmoid code to use
> the new QStateMachine as it's basically a state machine, 

Yeah, the code actually already uses QStateMachine concepts, it was inspired by it 
(but QSM wasn't released at that point). :)

> fix the
> dataengine/service code to provide one function for http POST based
> services so the plugins doesn't need to actually duplicate code and even
> make it work on different to avoid bugs of people pasting too much content
> at once (there is this bug where the user posted by mistake(?) a 12MB file
> and it froze plasma).

I assume you mean making those plugins scripts (Python, or something), otherwise 
sharing via GHNS can be pretty painful.

> Another clear motivation is how user friendly "Pastebin" is ? It's more of
> a share tool and people that actually don't know what pastebin means
> looses a good chance/tool to share their stuff. It would even make sense
> to create plugins for flickr and picasa for example (maybe using the
> already present KIPI plugins for that).
> 
> So, what do you think ? Pastebin turns into "Share It!" with a better
> architecture.

Sounds good. :)

> /me waiting for the "no"'s and "don't"'s now :)
-- 
sebas

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