4.5 - Activities

[Ivan Čukić]

> hmm. am i reading this correctly that this kded service is only needed if
> nepomuk is not there, and that it serves as a cache-in-the-middle between
> nepomuk and the applications? this seems like a lot of overhead just to

this was one of the kwin people wishes. Even with nepomuk, a cache-in-the 
middle is benefitial here since we don't really need the overhead of querying 
nepomuk when a user switches the activity.

> there there is the topic of signals ... dbus signals suck majorly. they are
> broadcast to every application on the bus whether they care or not. might
> it be better if ActivityConsumer registered itself over dbus with the kded
> service which would then call async methods on these registered objects as
> needed? this is what we're doing with jobs, notifications and the system
> tray.

Ok. We could do that - I had no idea dbus signals were that badly designed.

> it has signals for document association; what about other resources?

The same comment as in the previous mail.

Cheerio,
Ivan

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