Review Request 124537: RFC: Add autocfg property magic for applet config dialogs

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

> On Juli 31, 2015, 12:55 nachm., Marco Martin wrote:
> > I like the idea, not sure about the autocfg_ prefix.
> > was it discussed in a bof? are there notes about it?

Yeah, maybe cfgitem or something like that?
Well, they mentioned they need good Kiosk support so I wanted to make the Plasma stuff follow that as magically as possible, UI-wise, that is.


- Kai Uwe


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On Juli 30, 2015, 8:38 nachm., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
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> (Updated Juli 30, 2015, 8:38 nachm.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-desktop
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> Description
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> Now you can use autocfg properties to applet config dialogs which are smarter than the cfg stuff we currently have. Instead of binding it directly to a property you bind it to an item and it tries to figure out what to do based on the properties the item has and the type of the config.
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> This allows us to automatically reflect immutables (cf. LiMux) in the UI without further ado by the plasmoid programmer. It can:
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> Boolean config:
>   - If it's bound to sth with a "checked" property (eg. checkbox), it sets checked to the config
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> Int config:
>   - If it's bound to sth with a "currentIndex" property (eg. combobox), it sets currentIndex to the config
>   - If it's bound to sth with value, minimumValue and maximumValue property (eg. slider or spinbox) it sets value to the config
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> String config:
>   - If it's bound to sth with a "text" property (eg. textfield) it sets text to the config
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> Maybe there's even more? We don't really have introspection so I just rely on properties being there and the programmer not doing rubbish. We could also use the label from the config xml and/or auto-populate min/maxvalue
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> Diffs
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>   desktoppackage/contents/configuration/AppletConfiguration.qml 0302c7a 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/124537/diff/
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> Testing
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> Working pretty nicely
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> Thanks,
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> Kai Uwe Broulik
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