Review Request: Integrate Plasma Scripting Console with KWin scripting

[Martin Gräßlin]

> On Dec. 23, 2011, 5:40 p.m., Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > looks quite straightforward. i'm not overly fond of having "wm console" and "desktop console" and not being able to switch between them in the UI. it would be very cool to have the ability to switch modes from the toolbar. 
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> > what would be FANTASTIC is to be able to put blocks of plasma-desktop and kwin code in the same editor and have it run the JS in the "right" place, but i think that faces a number of limitations due to the nature of controlling an out of process app (kwin). either the kwin API would need to implemented in plasmagenericshell's scripting and in there forward calls on via DBus (or whatever) or limit it rather unnaturally to blocks of code that would get executed in their own context (e.g. no variables available from both a desktop block and a kwin block)
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> > so that seems like something for another day, as it would be quite a bit of work :)
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> > imho, for now this can go in as-is with the addition of a drop down in the toolbar to switch between modes easily

> it would be very cool to have the ability to switch modes from the toolbar. 
Yes, that's something I want to add. I thought about to Toggle Buttons in the toolbar "Plasma", "KWin" which are mutual exclusive. I just didn't want to work on it any more today and wanted to push out the review request :-)

Will implement that after Christmas break :-)

The other idea sounds complicated. Not sure whether that would be possible at all without exposing complete KWin internals to D-Bus.


- Martin


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On Dec. 23, 2011, 2:24 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 23, 2011, 2:24 p.m.)
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> Review request for kwin and Plasma.
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> Description
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> * KWin scripting becomes partly controllable through D-Bus
> * Desktop Scripting Console can control KWin scripts. For that two new methods to PlasmaApp's D-Bus interface are added. If in KWin mode the script is passed to KWin through D-Bus
> * Plasma Desktop Runner gains new keyword "wm console" to start Desktop Scripting Console in KWin mode.
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> Diffs
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>   kwin/scripting/scripting.h b0d00f9 
>   kwin/scripting/scripting.cpp 0a71849 
>   plasma/desktop/runners/plasma-desktop/plasma-desktop-runner.h 227748d 
>   plasma/desktop/runners/plasma-desktop/plasma-desktop-runner.cpp 617bc69 
>   plasma/desktop/shell/dbus/org.kde.plasma.App.xml e9b6482 
>   plasma/desktop/shell/interactiveconsole.h f94b997 
>   plasma/desktop/shell/interactiveconsole.cpp 6f2ff75 
>   plasma/desktop/shell/plasmaapp.h 3c7289c 
>   plasma/desktop/shell/plasmaapp.cpp b630225 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103518/diff/diff
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> Testing
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> Screenshots
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> Desktop Scripting console with KWin integration
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103518/s/379/
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Gräßlin
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