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On Sunday 30 March 2008, Jim Bublitz wrote:
> specifically named .so lib). KDE3 Panel applets and extensions allowed
> that.

for accuracy's sake: there was a 3rd party kicker applet that came, went, c=
ame=20
back again and.. not sure where it ended up .. but it loaded python scripts=
=20
that would run as applets. =3D) it wasn't widely distributed or used, wasn'=
t=20
part of the core, and iirc was a wee bit of a hack in how it accomplished i=
t=20
(kicker wasn't overly scripting friendly by default). panel extensions and=
=20
other kicker plugins were not similarly python enabled, however.

> haven't looked at kross much yet, and maybe that will solve some of the=20
> problems,=20

kross came out of the koffice project's work on providing such scripting=20
support.

> problems, but some people would like to write plasmoids or ioslaves or

plasma already has this kind of support for widgets, containments, engines =
and=20
runners. any language for which a ScriptEngine exists is supported. current=
ly=20
that's ECMAScript (via QScript), html/css/javascript (via webkit) and pytho=
n=20
(hopefully ruby as well, once the threading crash gets worked out).

=2D-=20
Aaron J. Seigo
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