Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Sunday 06 August 2006 15:52, Olivier Goffart wrote: > >>> and the contactlist data structure ought to be able to feed directly into >>> views. >>> >> What do you mean ? >> > > having a data structure for contacts, a view and then a bridge between those > two that needs to maintained is not necessary these days. > > we have the ability to provide a data model and tell a view "show this model" > and with 0 work to show that model in the view have it shown. > > this means when you modify the data structures the views (which may not be > visual, btw) are updated as there is no sync issue to do with data<->view > bridges. > > >>> one of the use cases kopete will run into is being able to bridge the >>> contact data to lists that appear on the desktop or in other >>> applications. identity is moving more and more towards sharing and >>> coordinating this data between multiple apps. >>> >> And that's one important topics. >> >> But I fail to see how QAbstractItemModel helps. >> >> What we need here is a defined dbus interface. >> > > the dbus interface would interface to the data structure. if someone removes > a > contact via dbus and the data structure is a QAM then the visual views will > update automatically. > > no manually synchronizing changes from out of the GUI with the GUI. no > manually synchronizing changes in 2 views with the data structures and each > other. etc ... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > kopete-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel > I'VE BEEN NICE AND YOU STILL SEND ME EMAILS.WILL YOU STOP OR DO I HAVE TO KICK YOUR HEAD IN?WILL YOU STOP?GET THE MESSAGE. _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
