Plasma Javascript Bindings inside QML

[Alexis Ménard]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:15 AM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>> On March 22, 2010, Alexis Ménard wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I just wonder which part of the Plasma bindings we want to put into QML :
>> >
>> > http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/JavaScript/API
>> >
>> > All the UI related stuff is pretty much useless because QML provides
>> > those facilities. It would be nice to have a list so we can think
>> > about what we can do for it.
>>
>> the UI related API can be divided (roughly) into three bits:
>>
>> * the classes in kdelibs/plasma/widgets/ being loaded via the QObject
>> bridging provided by QtScript. we should have those widgets available from
>> QML.
>
> as far i seen it's pretty easy to bind any qgraphicswidget into qml..
> the bad news is that it will behave as a second class citizen not being a
> QDeclarativeItem, so can't be in a qanchorlayout ar directly be a listview
> delegate for instance, everything will have to go for a proxy object called
> GraphicsObjectContainer, i'm still a bit uneasy with this one.

This is about to change. QGraphicsObjectContainer will disappear.

>
>> * bindings for the QGraphicsLayout classes. those are unneeded in QML.
>>
>> * QPainter and related; we don't need any of that since there is no direct
>> painting in QML. the bindings for QRectF, QPoint, QColor, etc may or may
>> not be of use, but are small and would be nice to have if QML doesn't
>> already provide for nice programmatic access to things like colors.
> pretty sure QSizeF is accessible as size.width and size.height, used it and
> would be nearly impossible to do any good with qgraphicswidgets in qml
> otherwise, hope also the other stuff is present
>
>
>> all the rest of the JS bindings, which are mostly about things other than
>> GUI, ought to be in there.
> yeah, dataengine, services etc, all vital
>
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
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