Projects/KNS2/Handler

Warning

Names are just temporary. Infos can be as well. Please don't trust this page as probably most of the things are going to heavily change during this 1 month developement marathone.

The Handler

This class is meant to provide a non-GUI and class to manage KNS packages. It's meant to be used from application themselves.

It will be able to:

• Unpack packages
• Map package files to standard QFiles
• more...

Proposed API

• Handler(QString filename) Creates a bundler that operates on the given package. Note that the package needs to be unpacked somewhere first, so operating on a dir is much faster
• Handler(KUrl dir) Creates a bundler that operates on the given directory.
• Handler(QString packageName, QString packageVersion) Creates a bundler that operates on the package already installed in the standard way.
• install() Extracts (installs) the package, and puts the .desktop file in $KDEHOME/services/. See here for more informations.

• QString author()' Returns a pluginInfo object. You can retrive most of the metadata from it. <- check with KNS::Entry
• similar methods to retrive all the rest of the metadata, icon included.

• initLayout() Initializes the layout app-wise. It should be called only once. It will use KStandardDirs::saveLocation() to create needed dirs. See the layout section for more informations.
• installDesktopFile() Obsoleted by install()?
• bool isInstalled() True if the package is already installed, false otherwise
• QFile packageFile() Returns a QFile pointing to the zipped package.
• QDir packageDir() Returns an (absolute) QDir pointing to the folder of the installed package.
• ...