On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Aleix Pol <aleix...@kde.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Mark Gaiser <mark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Aleix Pol <aleix...@kde.org> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> I've been working on Purpose since some months now, with the intention > >> of becoming a framework some day. Some information about it can be > >> read here: > >> > >> > https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/libs/purpose/repository/revisions/master/entry/README.md > >> > >> As it is right now it's a tier 2 framework (kcoreaddons and ki18n) > >> plus the plugins. Plugins raise the tier to 3 because of KIO which is > >> used by some plugins. > >> > >> As it is now, it's being used by: Kamoso, QuickShare plasmoid and > >> KDevelop for patch sharing. I'd like to see it used in other cases > >> than sharing as well as in other applications, but here's where we are > >> at the moment. I think it's something to build upon. > >> > >> Any thoughts? > >> > >> Aleix > > > > > > Hi Aleix, > > > > I'm trying to understand what Purpose is doing exactly. > > I've read the readme file, but i still can't quite figure out what it's > > doing or where i might be able to use it. > > > > Could you give a short summary with a clear example where to use it? That > > would help me :) > > Well, the shortcut to explaining it is that it's quite similar to > Android intents. > > The idea is that you identify some tasks you can group, for example: > - share, where you can get the different services to share > - getImage that would list your scanner, camera and also some web services. > - addContact that would let you add a contact on your address book or > gmail directly. > > Then you receive the results in a nice and simple tuple. The input and > output arguments depend on the kind of task you are performing. > > I hope this made sense > Aleix > > Thank you, that clears it up for me i think.
Just curious, what would have to be done for a "send file" intent? Where a file can be send to (one of the following): - google drive - owncloud - dropbox - as mail attachment to someone - whatever other plugin I'm guessing each individual plugin would have to be fully implemented in Purpose?
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