Regarding Plasma Activites file location!

[karan pratap singh]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, August 3, 2011 11:30:20 you wrote:
> > So does this mean if I copy the activity details from theplasma-desktop
> > -appletsrc of the server and write them to theplasma-desktop-appletsrc of
> > the client desktop, and then restartplasma-desktop , then the same
> activity
> > will be started on the clientmachine?
>
> AMBIGUITY ALERT: you two are using the word "activities" differently :)
>
> Marco is talking about Plasma's Activities, which are backed by Nepomuk.
>
> Karan is talking about classroom activities, which are layouts for the
> classroom containment.
>
> this is going to be very confusing; so i'd like to suggest that we find a
> different name for the classroom 'activities'. perhaps "lesson sets" or
> "class
> layouts"?
>
>
lesson sets sound good to me!


> anyways .. karan, you probably do not want to be copying appletsrc files
> around; what you probably want to be doing is sending bits of javascript
> around, probably modeled after (or even directly using) the stripped-down
> version of the desktop shell scripting[1] that Plasma KPart uses[2]. those
> bits of javascript can then be run by the Classroom containment to populate
> itself.
>
> this will allow different screen sizes and won't rely on fiddling around
> with
> configuration files which are not meant to be used for runtime
> modifications.
>
> [1]
> http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/PlasmaDesktopScripting
> [2] kde-runtime/plasma/kpart/scripting/
>
>

Ok, I will read up on this! :)

-- 
regards,
Karan Pratap Singh
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