Review Request 122239: Add KCMShell.open() to kquickcontrolsaddons

[Marco Martin]

> On Jan. 26, 2015, 9:08 a.m., Marco Martin wrote:
> > where do you want to use it?
> > Iirc Bhushan is working o a global way to make series of kcms accessible from plasmoids
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> David Edmundson wrote:
>     Generic is always better.
>     KDeclarative is used from places outside Plasma. Applications in future will need to open KCMs too.
>     If we put it in Plasma in one year we'll end up with this anyway and we end up maintaining a weird system used only by us.
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>     Also from a discussion on IRC you'll end up guessing the name to put in the UI. This will lead to blocking developers from being able to do the right thing by trying to be too clever.
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> Bhushan Shah wrote:
>     My suggestion is to have both this can be used by applets if they don't like solution provided by plasma-framework OR optionally turn this into simple processrunner, there are use cases for both methods

apart that reading an "always" makes me cringe :p
what I really don't like is the ui inconsistencies that this will cause (an encourages). They will happen anyways true, but at least a timid attempt at fighting that could be done (this was always been a problem in KDE, wasn't it..), creating a path of least resistence and trying to enforce it is an approach.

in the end is mostly a technical problem, since the actual proper solution (putting them in the configure dialog) is not possible anymore. if some day this will be possible again (for instance kcms in qml) that should be the preferred way again, so both approaches are in the end just workarounds, so... whatever (/me shrugs)


- Marco


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On Jan. 24, 2015, 11:54 p.m., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 24, 2015, 11:54 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: kdeclarative
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> Description
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> Since there are already like 10 copies of the ProcessRunner for all kinds of plasmoids wanting to open a KCM, this adds a KCMShell.open("foo") and KCMShell.open(["foo", "bar", "baz"]) singleton.
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> Diffs
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>   src/qmlcontrols/kquickcontrolsaddons/CMakeLists.txt 65e28ff 
>   src/qmlcontrols/kquickcontrolsaddons/kcmshell.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/qmlcontrols/kquickcontrolsaddons/kcmshell.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   src/qmlcontrols/kquickcontrolsaddons/kquickcontrolsaddonsplugin.cpp 289f1ed 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122239/diff/
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> Testing
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> Works. Dunno if the name causes clashes or this is the right place to put it.
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> Thanks,
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> Kai Uwe Broulik
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