Hi Thorsten, Even I want to go with the first choice of using D-Bus communication as it also provides better compatibility even if things in kpresenter might change internally. I was just wondering, if there is a way kpresenter can be started in the background without actually showing its UI so we can make D-Bus calls to it, is this possible? Even if its not currently, is it possible to add this feature to it?
Thanks, Sinny -- http://www.sinny.in On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Thorsten Zachmann <t.zachm...@zagge.de> wrote: > Hello Sinny, > > On Monday, March 21, 2011 04:52:08 Sinny Kumari wrote: >> CC'ing to plasma-devel, thanks for the suggestion todd. >> >> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:31 AM, todd rme <toddrme2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Sinny Kumari <ksi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> HI! >> >> >> >> I am working on idea >> >> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Project:_Plasma-based_Presentat >> >> ion_View >> >> >> >> In order to do it, initially I thought, I will use D-Bus for >> >> slideshow, next/previous slide >> >> Later what I understood is that, kpresenter must be running for the >> >> D-Bus call to work which is not a good approach to do. >> >> >> >> Also, I am not sure if I can get huge data like Slide previews through >> >> D-Bus calls >> >> >> >> So, what would be the preferred way to do this? Please suggest me >> >> > > I see two possibilities here. > > 1. Use dbus to communicate with stage(kpresenter) > > 2. Use plasma in stage. > > Using dbus has the benefit of stage not depending on plasma. It allows to > develop the project indipendently of stage. > True when using dbus stage needs to be running. It could also be started from > the plasma frontend. The amound of data is not that big so that it would be a > problem to transfer the data via dbus. > > If used plasma internally it should be made sure that this is an optional > dependency that is not needed if the user doesn't want it. > > Thorsten > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
