Plasma Package -> Application Extension Framework?

[Aleix Pol]

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Kevin Krammer <krammer at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> first please apologize if this is already under way or done and I am just
> not
> up to date enough :-)
>
> Basically I was thinking about application scripting, allowing power users,
> sysadmins, etc. to control or extend applications through built-in
> scripting
> capabilities.
>
> A couple of KDE applications do that already, e.g. Kate, but it is not a
> very
> common features.
> So my base line of thinking was that maybe we can help application
> developers
> by having common code and tools available as a framework.
>
> One of the features that would likely be interesting to most application
> developers is how to handle installation and runtime detection of available
> scripts.
>
> Since I remembered reading about some form of packaging being developed for
> Plasma years ago I went to TechBase and read up a bit on Plasma Package.
>
> What are your opinions on having that in a generic "app extension"
> framework?
> Are there any Plasma specific dependencies in the current code?
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
> --
> Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
> KDE user support, developer mentoring
>
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I certainly think it could make sense to make plasma packages usable by
other projects.

Anybody knows how generic the code is? I haven't looked at it for a while...

Aleix
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