Review Request 125817: Add plugin system for Calendar events

[Luca Beltrame]

> On Ott. 28, 2015, 10:15 a.m., Marco Martin wrote:
> > not much a fan of adding a public library there, but i guess there aren't many other ways. Could it be put into plasma-workspace instead?
> 
> Daniel Vrátil wrote:
>     Please don't, unless you want to have Akonadi dependency in plasma-workspace. This way we in KDE PIM can provide our own plugin, because having a dependency on plasma-framework is not a big problem for us (unlike having a PIM dependency in plasma-workspace I imagine).

+1 to what Dan said. As a contributor and a packager: plase *don't* have things depend on workspace. It was a mess already in 4.x times, and caused all sorts of headaches down the way.


- Luca


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On Ott. 27, 2015, 10:10 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
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> (Updated Ott. 27, 2015, 10:10 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma and Daniel Vrátil.
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> Repository: plasma-framework
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> Description
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> This adds a simple plugin interface that can be subclassed
> and provide events integration with Plasma Calendar applet.
> 
> It's asynchronous and I've kept it deliberately simple.
> For now the Calendar tells the plugins which date range
> is being displayed, the plugins load the data and then
> emit the dataReady() signal containing the events.
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> The events are stored in a multihash for quick access
> by the Calendar's agenda part but also for overall
> easy-to-use (eg. in teh model data()).
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> The event data is stored in EventData class, which has
> a pretty self-explanatory members, except perhaps the
> "isMinor" one. The intention with this is to support
> namedays, where in some countries the calendars have
> different name every day. This is just a minor holiday
> and as such should not mark the calendar grid, otherwise
> the whole grid would be in a different color.
> 
> Putting the interface here might raise the question of
> depending on plasma-framework, but plugins provided by
> KDE can go to plasma-workspace and other 3rd party ones
> would just have to live with it. I don't think it will
> be a problem but if it turns out it is, we can rethink
> the placement.
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> Diffs
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>   src/declarativeimports/calendar/CMakeLists.txt 40ead91 
>   src/declarativeimports/calendar/calendarplugin.cpp bafe80c 
>   src/declarativeimports/calendar/daysmodel.h a5bdac9 
>   src/declarativeimports/calendar/daysmodel.cpp 2d059a8 
>   src/declarativeimports/calendar/eventdatadecorator.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/declarativeimports/calendar/eventdatadecorator.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   src/declarativeimports/calendar/plasmacalendarintegration/CMakeLists.txt PRE-CREATION 
>   src/declarativeimports/calendar/plasmacalendarintegration/PlasmaCalendarIntegrationConfig.cmake.in PRE-CREATION 
>   src/declarativeimports/calendar/plasmacalendarintegration/calendareventsplugin.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/declarativeimports/calendar/plasmacalendarintegration/calendareventsplugin.cpp PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125817/diff/
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> Testing
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> I have a simple KHolidays based plugin written (patch should be up later today)
> and patches in the Calendar applet.
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> Everything works as expected:
> * the days are marked as containing an event
> * the agenda part displays details of that event (name)
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin Klapetek
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