2011/2/24 Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com>
> On Thursday 24 February 2011, Luiz Romário Santana Rios wrote:
> > >
> > > --
> > > Luiz Romário Santana Rios
> >
> > So, I took a look at the docs, and it looks rather simple to do that
> > button. You tell me if I'm doing it right:
> >
> > - Create an icon widget.
> > + Just a Plasma.IconWidget, right? The only problem is that QIcon
> > doesn't seem to be supported by QML, so I can't set the icon property.
>
> with a qml-only plasmoid you can
> icon: QIcon("preferences-activities")
>
> > - Declare a QObject based on QDBusInterface to QML.
> > + Since QML elements only support default constructors, create a new
> > class that composes QDBusInterface and turn each argument of the
> > constructor into a property.
> > + Create an asyncCall method that just calls QDBusInterface's
> asyncCall
> > and make it Q_EXPORTABLE.
> > - Instantiate a DBus Interface of plasma on the QML.
> > + Just pass the constructor parameters as properties (How do I know
> > which plasma shell [plasma-desktop, plasma-netbook] is running?).
> > - Make an asyncCall onClicked.
> > + onClicked: iface.asyncCall("local.PlasmaApp.toggleDashborad()"), I
> > guess.
>
> what about putting this in the activities dataengine?
Is there such a dataengine? Or you're planning on creating it?
>
it would be an operation of the service associated to the source "Current"
>
> this hoewver would make the activities service depending on plasma-desktop,
> a
> thing that i really don't like.
>
That would make the plasmoid depend on plasma. The DBus interface is still
there, isn't it?
> probably the service should figure out the bus name of its running process
> and
> we then require that a plasma shell shows a toggleActivityManager() (if it
> supports actvities)
>
> to figure the bus name it could be constructed the same way, so org.kde
> .appname of the kapplication, - pid.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
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