On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Alessandro Diaferia <alediafe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2010/4/2 Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> >> >> On Friday 02 April 2010, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: >> > (My ideas, be free to kick ;) >> > >> > Hi Christophe, now I'm able to understand most of what you've >> > proposed. Somehow, I don't like having just one state machine for the >> > whole MC, the main reason being that we're going to support >> > extensibility through custom plugins, so the MC can no longer assume >> > that it knows exactly how many states are present. >> > What I propose is not altering the libraries, but to have a state >> > machine for each component (component as in the containment, >> > controller applet etc). Though I don't have code to show that right >> > now (i'm writing a small Qt app to demo it), I'll try to explain a >> > sample working- >> >> While i share the concern over extesibility (and wouldn't know how to do >> it >> with a single global state machine) how a state machine for each component >> would fix that? >> a part every plugin being a omplete set of new applets... >> >> Cheers, >> Marco Martin >> _______________________________________________ >> Plasma-devel mailing list >> Plasma-devel@kde.org >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > I like the extensibility idea too but i think that we are bound to the > definition of a set of possible states. We can try to look forward as much > as we can and define such states. Plugins will just specify which of those > states they'll refer to. In the future, probably, we'll update our libraries > with the states that we could have never imagined in the past :-).
Seems something like pseudo extensible :P > > So we can now have: > Pictures, > Videos, > Audio tracks, > Games, > Olographic films :-) > ... > > That's probably enough for now :-P > > Cheers > > -- > Alessandro Diaferia > KDE Developer > KDE e.V. member > > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > -- Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
