I'm seeing a couple behaviors I didn't really expect. 1. if I let the Applet set an update frequency in connectSource, many setData's in the data engine just aren't passed on to the Applet. Thats probably intended, but it is somewhat annoying.
2. DataEngine::setPollingInterval seems to poll only once. My "Network Info" data engine updates bits of its source's data asynchronously, things like DNS lookups, and calls to ping (for about 5 seconds each), and it's kind of annoying that the widget won't see the data till the next poll, if it does end up polling. I suppose I could go back to setting up a timer in the data engine itself to update all host's, but that felt dirty. I'd rather use features built into plasma itself to manage it all. It'd probably be best to use the update interval argument to DataEngine::connectSource in the applet, so the widget itself could set the update frequency, but as it stands, it seems plasma will merge "dataUpdated" signals, or ignore setData calls till the next periodic update, which is kind of too late since the periodic update is just going to fire off another async update of one or more of the properties. Essentially the data will be behind quite a bit (Depending on the update rate selected). Oh, and in case anyone is still interested, two new screen shots of my plasmoid: http://strangesoft.net/plasma-networkinfo/prototype11.png http://strangesoft.net/plasma-networkinfo/prototype12.png My list widget shows up status with an icon, and can collapse groups now :D -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellst...@shaw.ca _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
