Re: Changes in plasma desktop scripting
i don't get the point of these changes. i would not spend my time doing this and as said by kevin desktop and activities are not the same concept 2014-03-28 21:56 GMT+01:00 Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org: Hi Marco, On Thursday, 2014-03-27, 21:39:12, Marco Martin wrote: Hi all, we had still a problem in the plasma desktop scripting api, because it comes from a time when one containment == one activity, therefore right now adding new activities from the script is pretty much broken. Since now is the only moment we can screw the api, today I made the following changes: activities() - desktops() activityById() - desktopById() activityForScreen() - desktopForScreen() I might be confusing terminology but aren't desktops and activities orthogonal concepts? E.g. like having a work and home activity and having a desktop setup with 6 virtual desktops? Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
Re: Changes in plasma desktop scripting
On Friday, March 28, 2014 21:56:55 Kevin Krammer wrote: I might be confusing terminology but aren't desktops and activities orthogonal concepts? E.g. like having a work and home activity and having a desktop setup with 6 virtual desktops? Mostly, but we have for example an active desktop per activity, so when switching activities, it remembers the desktop you're on, and will go back to that desktop when you switch back to that activity. Cheers, -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
Re: Changes in plasma desktop scripting
On Friday 28 March 2014 21:56:55 Kevin Krammer wrote: I might be confusing terminology but aren't desktops and activities orthogonal concepts? E.g. like having a work and home activity and having a desktop setup with 6 virtual desktops? in this case desktop = desktop containment. in the first draft i had containment but then, is just desktop containments and there also panel containments, called Panel -- Marco Martin ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
Re: Changes in plasma desktop scripting
On Saturday, 2014-03-29, 17:44:48, Marco Martin wrote: On Friday 28 March 2014 21:56:55 Kevin Krammer wrote: I might be confusing terminology but aren't desktops and activities orthogonal concepts? E.g. like having a work and home activity and having a desktop setup with 6 virtual desktops? in this case desktop = desktop containment. in the first draft i had containment but then, is just desktop containments and there also panel containments, called Panel Wouldn't it be then make more sense to use desktopContainments? And isn't this a rather invasive change behavioral wise? I mean if you currently have a script that addresses activities you would then (after porting) have a script addressing containments? Or did the old API not actually address activities and you are fixing that misnaming? Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
Re: Changes in plasma desktop scripting
On Saturday, 2014-03-29, 17:32:14, Sebastian Kügler wrote: On Friday, March 28, 2014 21:56:55 Kevin Krammer wrote: I might be confusing terminology but aren't desktops and activities orthogonal concepts? E.g. like having a work and home activity and having a desktop setup with 6 virtual desktops? Mostly, but we have for example an active desktop per activity, so when switching activities, it remembers the desktop you're on, and will go back to that desktop when you switch back to that activity. Sure, but if you have, e.g. 6 desktops and 2 activities, I would expect a JavaScript call for activities to return an array of 2 objects while a call to a function containing desktops would return 6. Or is the desktops array a property of an activity object? Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
Re: Changes in plasma desktop scripting
Hi Marco, On Thursday, 2014-03-27, 21:39:12, Marco Martin wrote: Hi all, we had still a problem in the plasma desktop scripting api, because it comes from a time when one containment == one activity, therefore right now adding new activities from the script is pretty much broken. Since now is the only moment we can screw the api, today I made the following changes: activities() - desktops() activityById() - desktopById() activityForScreen() - desktopForScreen() I might be confusing terminology but aren't desktops and activities orthogonal concepts? E.g. like having a work and home activity and having a desktop setup with 6 virtual desktops? Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
Changes in plasma desktop scripting
Hi all, we had still a problem in the plasma desktop scripting api, because it comes from a time when one containment == one activity, therefore right now adding new activities from the script is pretty much broken. Since now is the only moment we can screw the api, today I made the following changes: activities() - desktops() activityById() - desktopById() activityForScreen() - desktopForScreen() To create a new activity, there is the new global function createActivity(activtyName, containmentPlugin (optional)) when you want to access the actual containments created by the activity, you do Array[containments] = desktopsForActivity(activityId) Opinions? comments? -- Marco Martin ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
Re: Changes in plasma desktop scripting
On Thursday 27 March 2014 21:39:12 Marco Martin wrote: Hi all, we had still a problem in the plasma desktop scripting api, because it comes from a time when one containment == one activity, therefore right now adding new activities from the script is pretty much broken. Since now is the only moment we can screw the api, today I made the following changes: activities() - desktops() activityById() - desktopById() activityForScreen() - desktopForScreen() I have also updated the documentation on a clone page of the docs of the plasma1 version: http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/PlasmaTwoDesktopScripting -- Marco Martin ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
