[PyKDE] Re: Enterprise Desktop - Scripting

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Tue December 16 2003 09:21, Jim Bublitz wrote:
> I'm not sure what support to scriptability KDE can offer - at the
> very least it would be nice to see some recognition of the need
> for scripting and some emphasis on making it happen. I'd be
> happy to discuss this further with anyone interested.

The vision that I have for this is to use a plugin system for the scripting 
engines and then provide a choice of KJS/ PyKDE / whatever engines that 
access the application via DCOP.

If you combine this with the possibility to define scripts in XMLGUI, you can 
extent every KDE application with arbitrary functionality. And e.g. the 
toolbar configuration dialog would be a good entry point for the user to add 
script-driven custom tool-buttons.

See also 
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=102641185508593&w=2
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=100569519312936&w=2

CC'ing Richard Moore since he actually seems to have done work on this, as 
opposed to me who only talks about it :-}

Cheers,
Waldo
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