integrating plasma into kdevelop's dashboard

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On July 27, 2010, Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > On July 27, 2010, Aleix Pol wrote:
> > > For the moment I'm implementing it passing the project identifier as
> > > the first argument when loading hte plasmoid. That works just fine for
> > > my plugins but I can't filter that to the rest of plugins. It would be
> > 
> > better
> > 
> > > if I could receive ::loadApplet myself and choose to call parent's if I
> > > want to, instead of reimplementing an internal version of the call.
> > 
> > so in internalLoadApplet you wish to do something like:
> > 
> > Applet *applet = loadApplet(name, appletId, args);
> > applet->doSomething();
> > return applet;
> > 
> > if so, that's easy to implement.
> 
> no, I meant something like that:
> 
> Applet* MyPluginLoader::loadApplet(QString name, uint id, QVariantList
> args) {
>       Applet *a;
>       if(iskdevelopplasmoid(name))
>             a=... mystuff
>       else {
>             args.removeFirst();
>             a=PluginLoader::loadApplet(name, id, args);
>      }
>      return a;
> }

essentially the same thing, just in a different order. note that you don't 
override loadApplet. that method is not virtual. you reimplement the protected 
internalLoadApplet, which is called from the public (and non-virtual) 
loadApplet.

while i think there is a better answer to your dilemma (see below) i'll adjust 
PluginLoader so that the above is possible.

> Here I guess that the problem would be that when restoring I wouldn't get
> that argument and I would be lost again.

yes. personally, i'd suggest you provide a built-in dataengine that the 
applets can connect to. set the project id in the dataengine, all the applets 
will get notified when that happens.

> (Just to recall, I have 1-corona/dashboard and 1 dashboard/project and I
> need my applets inside the dashboard to know about the project)

ah, right. you aren't using the kpart. which means making everything work 
twice. merf.

> > > Custom plasmoid storing and restoring is not yet working. Is that
> > > normal?
> > 
> > are they being written out the config file? if so, when being restored,
> > is your internalLoadApplet implementation being called?
> 
> They're not being written and I don't know why.

is your code calling Corona::saveLayout() ever?

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Aaron J. Seigo
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