Activities API

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday, September 12, 2013 16:19:18 Martin Graesslin wrote:
> On Thursday 12 September 2013 15:51:55 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Thursday, September 12, 2013 15:26:50 Marco Martin wrote:
> > > in general to c++ it's maybe slightly clunkier, since one has to call
> > > model->
> > > 
> > > >data(role) and then try to convert the qvariant.
> > > 
> > > (perhaps it may have some api to ease fetch data from c++)
> > > 
> > > on QML... would be awesome :D
> > 
> > i’d be lazy (the programmer’s mantra? ;) and not bother with any such 
API
> > until it is shown to be necessary. i would not be surprised if every user
> > of KActivities::Info ends up being some QML code somewhere.
> 
> do you want to be proofed wrong? ;-) kwin/useractions.cpp line 691 following
> (frameworks-scratch branch)

filling a popup menu hardly seems a good reason to have a whole class in a 
library.

visiting lxr.kde.org, it turns out that there are 4 use cases:

* filling a QMenu (kwin, tasks plasmoid)
* filling a combobox
* populating a dataengine (SLC, activities)
* searching in an AbstractRunner

the last three either can use a model or will be moving to models in Plasma 2. 
which means the only use case right now is populating a popup menu. in 2 
places.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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