integrating plasma into kdevelop's dashboard

[Ryan Rix]

On Tue 27 July 2010 18:13:07 Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > On July 27, 2010, Aleix Pol wrote:
> > > But I need to know it before, to be able to create the items
> > > accordingly.
> > 
> > it sounds like you are implementing something "incorrectly" here.
> > 
> > the only thing PluginLoader should need to do is return the right kind of
> > object. from that point forward, it's up to the object itself to Do The
> > Right
> > Thing. by the time Applet::init() is caled, it knows what containment,
> > etc it
> > is in, and set up of the Applet that relies on that informaton should be
> > done
> > there.
> > 
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> I've been looking into it and it's fine to use DataEngines. I have the
> exact same problem though. I can create a kdevelop DataEngine with a
> project DataContainer, but this is still created in the PluginLoader and I
> can't have a reference to the Project.

... I think we're missing something here. The whole point of the PluginLoader 
is to let you access the internals off applications via DataEngine, etc... 
Create the DataEngine and PluginLoader subclass somewhere that you have access 
to the object you need, pass it to plasma (you could make a call to one of 
PlasmaKPart's slots, but you'll have to do this yourself in your corona or 
view creation code, or somewhere...

> What can I do about it?
> 
> Thanks again :)
> Aleix

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