Opinion on config dialog for QML plasmoids

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Mon Jul 4 23:26:14 CEST 2011


On Monday 04 July 2011, Viranch Mehta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently the only way QML applets can have customized config dialog is to
> put the config.ui file in the main.qml directory which is loaded when
> settings are
> opened.
> 
> We have reached a use case where we need a number of settings that
> are categorized into tabs on left side of the config dialog (like the one
> in device notifier, which loads the KCM module from the system settings).
> This would have to be implemented in the bindings, but not too sure if it
> should be done due to the uncertainty of this particular kind of use case.
> 
> It would be nice to have people's opinion on whether it is a desired use
> case to
> implement it. Also whether to support the KCM modules too inside the config
> dialog.

the problem here is whether to bind or not the posssibility to add kcm in the 
plasmoid config dialogs.

seems a littleuse case for the qml only plasmoids.
maybe it makes worth to be implemented in c++, with a qml ui?

-- 
Marco Martin


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