Projects/KNS2

KNewStuff 2 (aka Masnak?)

Warning

Things you see here are incomplete and totally a work in progress

API Discussion

Classes will (mostly) be:

• A packager/uploader (Plasmagik)
• An Handler (Facility class created to manage files locally)
• A download GUI (Like the exixting one)
• A package manager (Like SK package manager)
• A class used to retrive *all* the information from a single entry (KNS::CompleteEntry)
• A model class to allow knewstuff integration into apps (It will contain all the informations availeable with the download dialog)

Generic TODO

• Rename KNS::Entry, and, consequentially, KNS::CompleteEntry

What still needs to be done (getting rid of the above section)

• Merge DXS and GHNS download dialogs. Also check with usability guys.
• Add networking capabilities to Plasmagik.
• Finish the code for the metadata generation.
• The Handler, to locally manage packages.
• Write a cache removal strategy, that should be the last bit of the networking stuff.
• The CompleteEntry class, used also by the Handler, used to retrive all the availeable informations from an already downloaded package (needs to be written in a more detailed fashion)
• Anything else?

Other

KNewStuff2 will store all the files in a specific dir. The layout of this dir, and all the related information can be found here.