On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 11:48:50 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > I'd like to install our binary plugins into subdirectories. This is in line
+1 > with how we'll do it across KF5. These plugins won't need .desktop files +10 > The new API also allows us to use packages' metadata for querying. It means > building up a KPluginInfo::List from metadata (so a bit of crawling through > the filesystem, but probably not recursively, to list plugins. Looking at > plasmapkg, the code to list packages is a bit convoluted right now, and I'd > like to see that fixed. it is convoluted because *some* of our packages registered .desktop files with ksycoca, some didn’t. what i like about the new system is ksycoca dies as far as we’re concerned and all packages, binary or scripted or just plain data (e.g. wallpapers) can be treated identically. huzzah. > With this in place, we can tackle more pieces of Plasma::PluginLoader to > make it sycoca-free. > > Obviously, this is your chance to weigh in. :) i have nothing to say other than “fuck yeah" -- Aaron J. Seigo _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel