On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 20:21:21, Simon Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone here tried doing kcontrol modules in Python+PyKDE? Not yet. > After seeing the success of IOSlaves in Python, I would like to be able to > kcontrol modules (kcm). I've been playing a bit with coding some admin > progs that really should be integrated with the control center. > > I had a look at the IOSlave code and saw that it works quite differently > than kcms. Kcms are basically shared libraries that have a factory method > that returns a instances of a subclass of KCModule. Yes, when I started looking at panel applets I realised what all the fuss was about! > What I would like is some opinions on the three ways of doing in kcms in > Python. (the 3 ways that I can think of ;-) ): > > 1) Implement in C/C++ a kcm that takes a python script from somewhere, > creates a KCModule instance using the script and returns it back to KDE > Control for running/embedding. This would be a case of C++ calling a > library which returns a PyKDE/Python object. I don't know if this is > possible. I'd try this method. Recent recommendations by Phil to use various sip functions might turn out to be very useful in this context. > 2) Implement in C/C++ a kcm and a subclass of KCModule (Pykcm). Pykcm > embeds the Python interpretter, and takes a python script from somewhere. > It then delegates its methods out to the corresponding methods in the > script. This sounds possible, and it probably a good solution (if it works. > ;-) ) This is a lot of work. > 3) Implement in C/C++ a kcm that runs an external python script that then > uses QXEmbed (see the KDE API docs) to embed itself in the KDE Control > center. This is quite do-able I think, but there may be some draw backs. I've no idea whether this would work! > Any thoughts? I'm going to pursue option 1 as I think that it'll provide the most flexible solution, if it works. Don't let me stop anyone else from trying any of the above methods. All the best, David _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
