Notes from "KRunner Breakout"

Vishesh Handa me at vhanda.in
Fri Jan 17 17:47:09 UTC 2014


On Friday 17 January 2014 16:32:18 Eike Hein wrote:
> On Thursday 16 January 2014 21:15:02 Vishesh Handa wrote:
> > * Runner Library needs a certain amount of work
> > - Add item type capabilities to the results
> > - Add preview capabilities
> > - Refactor so that async runners do not need to spawn an event loop and
> > block
> 
> Do you expect the API will stay intact to where e.g. Homerun's use
> of KRunner (wrapped in its own source plugin to model-fy it) is not
> impacted?
> 

I haven't given it much though, but unless there is a good reason, I can't 
imagine me changing too much.

The more we change the more runners we will need to port.

The only big change that I can see coming is the conversion of RunnerManager 
into a model.



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