Review Request 120318: PoC: Package Manager integration for the AppsModel

[Eike Hein]

> On Sept. 22, 2014, 3:38 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > I like the idea!
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> > Suggestion for the "which package manager to use" part: add a package manager selection to the defaults application KCM and use the one which is configured there. Distros should be able to easily configure the one they are using then.
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     Why would distros need a GUI for configuring it?
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     distros don't need the GUI, but the kconfig key. Some distros provide multiple tools, though and then the user might want to be able to configure it.

I was planning to add a config key to Kicker for now, but I agree a more canonical workspace-level key and an API in KToolInvocation would be cool. Next Frameworks release maybe?


- Eike


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On Sept. 22, 2014, 3:34 p.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 22, 2014, 3:34 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma and Eike Hein.
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> Repository: plasma-desktop
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> Description
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> I've been discussing with Eike having something like that for a while, I finally managed to put something together that we could use in a future.
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> It adds an entry on the menu that is called "Remove '<packagename>'" that opens a software center. I set it to muon-discover for now, but this should be iterated over.
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> To do the lookup, it uses PackageKitQt. It probably should be an optional dependency, but I want Eike to look into it first and decide how to do it best.
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> Diffs
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>   CMakeLists.txt 7b794ff 
>   applets/kicker/CMakeLists.txt 0688732 
>   applets/kicker/plugin/appsmodel.cpp b88d711 
>   applets/kicker/plugin/findpackagenamejob.h PRE-CREATION 
>   applets/kicker/plugin/findpackagenamejob.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   config-workspace.h.cmake 58a11d4 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120318/diff/
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> Testing
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> I uninstalled openarena, selfcompiled software cannot removed.
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> The locking is not really noticeable on my system. We still probably want to improve that but I don't think it would be terrible like this, only bad.
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> Thanks,
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez
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