Re: on Activities on Plasma2

2013-10-30 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 16:53:02 Ivan Čukić wrote: > Aaron: > > for instance, if we have a “Presentation Mode” activity template, > > PowerDevil could have settings in the template that are appropriate for > > presentations (turn off screen sleep), kscreen could set up multiple > > screens i

Re: on Activities on Plasma2

2013-10-30 Thread Marco Martin
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Ivan Čukić wrote: > p.s. We will need more meta-data than templates. > - bookMarkoed (no idea what was that about :) :P) > just in brief since is partly OT: I wanted to try to do a version of activitybar that only listed activities that are bookmarked in some wa

Re: on Activities on Plasma2

2013-10-30 Thread Ivan Čukić
p.s. We will need more meta-data than templates. - bookMarkoed (no idea what was that about :) :P) - currently opened resurces belonging to activity - ... -- Make your code readable. Pretend the next person who looks at your code is a psychopath and they know where you live. -- Philip Wadler

Re: on Activities on Plasma2

2013-10-30 Thread Ivan Čukić
Aaron: > for instance, if we have a “Presentation Mode” activity template, PowerDevil > could have settings in the template that are appropriate for presentations > (turn off screen sleep), kscreen could set up multiple screens in a > presentation mode (e.g. not clone), and the desktop shell can p

Re: on Activities on Plasma2

2013-10-30 Thread Marco Martin
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Ivan Čukić wrote: > I don't have an issue with kamd providing the template information, but I > don't like the idea of it having to actually deal with the template > handling. > If plasma is creating containments based on the template, some other part > of > the s

Re: on Activities on Plasma2

2013-10-30 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 16:08:04 Ivan Čukić wrote: > I don't have an issue with kamd providing the template information, but I > don't like the idea of it having to actually deal with the template > handling. If plasma is creating containments based on the template, some > other part of th

Re: on Activities on Plasma2

2013-10-30 Thread Ivan Čukić
> * the activity manager daemon creates the activity, associeting the template > identifier in the activity metadata (and doing operations that's probably > better be done by the daemon, like starting/stopping applications) I've kept the reply window open for a day now to have the time to think a

on Activities on Plasma2

2013-10-29 Thread Marco Martin
Hi all, so, activities are getting back in plasma2, and thanks to Ivan, the api of the client library is getting better as well. So, waht we can do at the moment with it? we can switch activities, start/stop them, basic stuff, not all is 100% back but we can start from there This gives us the