KDE 4.0 & Plasma with Mugshot
Alan Cramer
get some Mugshot love as a KDE 4.0 plasma applet? I would look at
this myself, but I have no idea where to start or what I am doing (not
a C or C++ man). I know that this sort of thing could be done as
there is a Twitter applet for Plasma already.
Alan
Owen Taylor
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 03:44 -0800, Alan Cramer wrote:
> I know that Red Hat is in bed with the Gnome folks...
[ ... I'll let that pass ... ]
> but any chance to
> get some Mugshot love as a KDE 4.0 plasma applet? I would look at
> this myself, but I have no idea where to start or what I am doing (not
> a C or C++ man). I know that this sort of thing could be done as
> there is a Twitter applet for Plasma already.
Well, I can't really give you much assistance with the design or the
coding, but recent changes to the design of the Mugshot client should
make creating alternative user interfaces easier.
The way it works now is that there is there is a headless
"desktop-data-engine" that connects to mugshot.org, and then exports the
data over D-BUS to client programs, including the "stacker" application.
The desktop-data-engine is started by standard D-BUS activation, so
should work in KDE, not just GNOME. (It does use various GNOME
libraries, but I don't there is any real dependency on the environment.)
The data export over D-BUS is done in a form that really requires a
client library to use effectively. We provide client libraries for C
(should be usable from C++) and Python, and there is also a start of one
for C# as well.
- Owen