On Monday, 2014-05-26, 10:58:06, Marco Martin wrote: > On Saturday 24 May 2014, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > Since I remembered reading about some form of packaging being developed > > for > > Plasma years ago I went to TechBase and read up a bit on Plasma Package. > > > > What are your opinions on having that in a generic "app extension" > > framework? Are there any Plasma specific dependencies in the current code? > > It's currently done in the Package and PackageStructure classes, as David > says, they have very few dependencies. Right, that doesn't sound bad at all. > One thing that is very plasma specific is internal, a set of > "packagestructures" that are specific for plasmoids,wallpapers,shells etc. > as well as the pluginloader class that creates the right type of package. Some of the package structures might also make sense out of the Plasma context I guess. The one described on TechBase [1] looks like it would work for any application where an extension can have its own UI. > Would be nice to have it as an independent framework, but at the moment is > fused into libplasma, and i wouldn't like to have that deprecated from the > second release. Right. I was mainly inquiring in principle, if this is something a new framework could be based on or if it would have to be rewritten. > Maybe it may be pulled out and not release it in the first release (keeping > it semi internal, as is the libplasmaquick atm) and have the package > framework released with the second frameworks release? > (as i understand thay are every month anyways?) Such a new framework would probably be in development for a couple of months before its initial release so that it can be used by a couple of applications to check that its API and feature set meets the needs of a more than one or two host applications. > Kevin: if you are in the frameworks meeting tomorrow can be discussed here > if is possible, and how to do? Unfortunately I am not really online the next two weeks due to being at a customer on-site and only having Internet in the early morning and the evenings. In general I am hoping for some interest in the idea and potentially a BoF at Akademy to discuss our scripting approach across applications. Cheers, Kevin [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/PackageOverview -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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