On Friday, December 17, 2010 20:59:38 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday, December 17, 2010, Chuginator wrote: > > Instead of restricting the user to specific pictures of the day, why not > > open it up and allow an image URL? > > good idea; probably the easiest way to do that would be to extend the potd > DataEngine. my suggestion: > > * create a service for the Providers source that has "addProvider" and > "removeProvider"; this would save the results in a config file (or > separate .desktop files for each; either would work fine) > > * have a generic, built-in, provider that uses a provided URL as the image > location that uses those > > * check for such defined providers on potd startup and offer them > alongside the other providers > > then adding support for this in the plasmoid would be simple and > straightforward. > > extra points for adding a QScript backend much like the comics engine did > so more complex providers can be added / downloaded from the web.
* Do the same trick as we do with the MediaWiki runner: specify the applet shared library, and initialize the applet with an URL passed in through X- Plasma-Argument= from the .desktop file. That way, you can even distribute your favorite picture of the day just using a single .desktop file. The implementation should also be quite trivial. -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
