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Subject: Re: Plasma desktop init scripting
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: 2010-12-24 9:36:27
Message-ID: 201012240136.37420.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Wednesday, December 22, 2010, Jeremiah Summers wrote:
> It would be nice if there were examples for loading folderview as the
> default activity (ie. classic desktop) setting its backend and maybe
> placing a widget at the bottom right of the screen ie. a trash can. I have
so ... you want us to write your init script for you ;P
more seriously, i'm unclear as to what is missing in the documentation that
makes this difficult to achieve. perhaps that's because i wrote it and so
can't see what's missing or unclear.
afaiu, what your script needs is:
* a way to create a new containment with a given type
* the ability to write a config value
* the ability to get the size of a screen and/or containment
* a way to create a new widget in your containment
what is missing from that list? which items in that list are not well answered
in the documentation?
if it's a matter of having a tutorial on things to watch for when creating an
init script (multiple screens, etc.) to augment the documentation, i think
that's the sort of thing that others could write as a nice contribution.
tbh: i've spent a lot of time in the last year writing and updating
documentation for different areas of plasma. we've had some contributions, but
not much, and i'm a little tired of doing things that i have zero personal
need for that others could quite easily do.
reading the desktop scripting documentation, experimenting a bit and putting
together some simple examples and/or a "writing an init script" tutorial is
completely within reach of virtually anyone with even moderate scripting
experience and a little motivation.
even editting the existing documentation to be clearer in places (i'm sure
there are many improvements to be made to it) would be good. it's on a wiki,
so it's completely editable.
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