On Friday 20 May 2005 13:58, Giacomo Lacava wrote: > On 5/20/05, Roberto Alsina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now, doing that is somewhat involved. Ok, it's quite hard. Hmmm... > > well, I don't think anyone has done it yet :-( > > > > The good news are, if someone ever does it, then there is no need to do > > it ever again, since the plugin itself would be python code :-) > > that's what I feared :/ > > and what about the other way around? For example, embed *the entire > Konqueror* (not just KHTML) in a python application, and then interact > through the usual interfaces? then you might add other features in > python...
I'm missing the rest of this thread for some reason, but I've never been been afraid to jump in even when I'm totally uninformed. I believe David Boddie has done some konqueror plugins - maybe he'll jump in here. The most likely case is that each plugin would need a small loader compiled as an .so file (C/C++) so that konqueror can find the plugin and load it. The loader simply instantiates a Python interpreter, calls the Python-coded plugin, and returns the plugin's handle to konqueror. They're not particularly hard to write, but the big apps (konqueror, koffice stuff, even control center modules) sometimes require some additional stuff to be workable. Panel applets or panel extensions, on the other hand are pretty simple examples of what's involved, and in fact you can use a single loader for all Python-based applets (because kicker provides enough info so the loader can tell what applet or extension to load). On the other side, PyKDE supports both qxembed and has a KParts module, so you could embed konqueror (the application) or import konqueror as a part. I haven't done any coding with KParts in a while, and there were some issues going from KDE2 to KDE3 - they should have been resolved, but I don't have an example that works at the moment. PyKDE has a couple global functions in KParts (see the PyKDE docs -- create[ReadWrite,ReadOnly]Part) to make loading KParts easier. Jim _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [email protected] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
