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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: [Panel-devel] PlasmaAppInterface, Plasma Engine
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-08-17 20:50:22
Message-ID: 200608171450.23353.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Thursday 17 August 2006 14:25, Daniel Bruegmann wrote:
> Thanks! If I understand this correctly, the applets will only have
> access to the library. 

correct.

> How will the applets be loaded/started?

the plasma application loads them.

> Are they  
> stand-alone applications that call special methods and link to the
> plasma library, or are they implementations of some interface (kind of
> like a plugin/shared library/java class that gets loaded at runtime/a
> python module that gets loaded at runtime)?

yes, the latter. the class that they will eventually subclass in in 
plasma/lib/applet.h ... that interface needs updating, however. it's not the 
final interface by far at this point.

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