Introducing Homerun

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 11:30:58 Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> Le mardi 13 novembre 2012 11:23:00 Aaron J. Seigo a écrit :
> > krunnermodel, a Qt model that comes with a QML component plugin (so you
> > can
> > just import and use it directly) is in
> > kde-runtime/plasma/declarativeimports
> I know about this model. We used it in the beginning, I even contributed a
> bit to it. Unfortunately it was not adapted for us because it made it
> difficult to group results by runners.
> Also, while it maps the QList<Plasma::QueryMatch> to a model, it does not
> bring full benefit of models from this: KRunnerModel has no way to know if a
> runner added/modified or removed an item so it always has to refresh the
> whole model (minus the hack I contributed to improve this in a certain
> case).

the answer is not to write a whole new model and then not even bother to see 
if could replace / be merged with what already exists.

if you need to be able to group by runners, add that to the existing 
implementation. how does the model in homerun facilitate grouping by runner?

> > > * Favorites
> > > Right now Homerun supports two kinds of favorites: favorite applications
> > > and favorite places, a source model can use the favoriteId role to make
> > > its item "favoritable".
> > 
> > We've been doing this since the first SAL using QueryMatch::id(). There is
> > also RunnerManager::mimeData() which gets you something that is draggable,
> > even.
> 
> The problem with QueryMatch::id() is that its format is runner-specific.
> This makes sense for KRunner, but not for Homerun because we want to
> identify whether the match is an application or a place so that it can be
> stored in the appropriate favorite collection.

how is this accomplished in homerun?

btw, i just spent some time looking through the homerun source code to see how 
things are put together. it would be super duper helpful if you would actually 
share how things are done in the code. in my email i provided things like dbus 
calls, method names .. things that are useful as starting points should one 
want to look into the code.

> This system is also used to browse installed applications for example.

.. for which we also have pre-existing models.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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