toolbox (and applethandle?) architecture rewamp

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 31 July 2010, Giulio Camuffo wrote:
> In data giovedì 29 luglio
2010 21:11:05, Marco Martin ha scritto:
> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:46 PM,
Giulio Camuffo <giuliocamuffo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > In data giovedì 29
luglio 2010 18:09:10, Marco Martin ha scritto:
> > >> if this works out, i
would like to try it for applet handles as well
> > >> in the future (in
this case there wouldn't be a dependency from
> > >> corona, but a
DesktopContainment could set a different plugin for
> > >> instance, but
that's another topic).
> > > 
> > > I'm all for the support for different
handles, and it would be really
> > > nice if we find out a nice API
allowing to use the same handles with
> > > different, developer-defined,
widgets other than the Applets.
> > > Currently in my containments with
grouping support i have to
> > > reimplement the handle to be able to use it
with my groups, and i'd
> > > like to find a nicer solution.
> > 
> > yep,
that was an use case i had in mind...
> > i want to see how the toolbox ones
turns out before really starting to
> > think on that...
> > but if you
would like to give it a crack i'm happy to leave it to you :p
> 
> I see two
ways to do it, though i don't like so much either one :(
> 1) We could
modify the handle constructor to let it pass a QGraphicsWidget
> instead of
an Applet and then check things like
> hasConfigurationInterface() using the
property() method. Still it would
> remain the problem of emitting the
appletTransformedByUser() signal, but
> maybe we could workaround that.

why
souldn't be an Applet? the problem is your containment?

Cheers,
Marco
Martin