Homerun sources and Plasma runners

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Le lundi 19 novembre 2012 14:58:40 Aurélien Gâteau a écrit :
> Le vendredi 16 novembre 2012 18:16:12 Marco Martin a écrit :
> > > Sources features missing in Runners:
> > > - model-based => more QML friendly
> > 
> > I still think that wrapped in a model or not is a detail.
> > still don't see what advantages would bring the api being a model, rather
> > a
> > model being a client?
> 
> It makes it possible to expose existing models: for example the model of the
> current Places is a proxy model on the existing KFilePlacesModel.
> 
> It also brings for free robust support for addition, update and removal
> results without having to implement this again in RunnerManager.

Additionally, it makes it possible to delay actual definition of result 
properties: with a model you do not have to call setFoo() explicitly to define 
the Foo property, since you reimplement ::data(), you can delay the 
computation of Foo until ::data(index, FooRole) is called.

Aurélien