Ivan Čukić

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Firefox and Chromium addon hackers needed [Activities]

Published by Ivan Čukić in the KDE development and artwork section, on 17 October 2012

Hi all,

While we all love and cherish our KDE browsers (Konq and rekonq) there are many users of Firefox and Chromium. And they can not use share-like-connect, they can not have their web-pages linked to activities, they can not …

Is there a brave soul in our community (or a few brave souls) that are willing to write a small addon for any of the aforementioned programs that will

know when a URL is loaded in a tab
know when the user switches between tabs
know the windowID of the window in which the tab resides, and
and report those events to the activity manager?

Talking to the activity manager is the easiest part of it all, it has C bindings, it is a d-bus service, so take your pick.

If you’re interested, please write to us on plasma-devel at kde.org

Comments:

Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-32758" rel="nofollow">sandsmark</a>: Maybe, don't know :)
@<a href="#comment-32865" rel="nofollow">Jason moofang</a>: The object that you need is in org.kde.ActivityManager /ActivityManager/Resources
For the apidox, you can see the <a href="https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdelibs/kactivities/repository/revisions/master/entry/src/service/Resources.h" rel="nofollow">Resources.h</a> and <a href="https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdelibs/kactivities/repository/revisions/master/entry/src/service/Event.h" rel="nofollow">Event.h</a>. The former contains the method docs, the later defines the enum for 'uint event'. (you should pass reason = 0)
Method of interest: <pre> void RegisterResourceEvent(
QString application,
uint windowId,
const QString & uri,
uint event,
uint reason);</pre>

And if you want to go one step further: <pre> void RegisterResourceMimeType(const QString & uri,
const QString & mimetype);</pre>
<pre> void RegisterResourceTitle(const QString & uri,
const QString & title);</pre>
Bill
what about Opera?
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-32734" rel="nofollow">fasd</a>: As always, if you don't want something, don't use it. If you lack something, write it. Or, at least, try existing feats - is integration with oxygen, kwallet, nepomuk and kde's dialogues.
@<a href="#comment-32735" rel="nofollow">Bojan</a>: To bi bilo super! Ako nemas kde git nalog, mozes da napravis na gitoriousu ili negde. Ako imas, repozitorijum je na https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/activities-support
@<a href="#comment-32736" rel="nofollow">Bill</a>: Well, Opera as well. Though, I don't guess Opera has a significant number of users (compared to the above ones).
John.
@<a href="#comment-32734" rel="nofollow">fasd</a>: You're kidding right? It's an optional add-on you have to manually download and install from the add-on website and activate. How is that forcing anything on you??? And yes, you do intend to sound disrespectful, otherwise you'd have never started trolling.
Jason moofang
Interestingly enough I'm now running an old build of opera mobile for meego on my tablet that I have installed the mer PA3 image on - because mer doesn't provide gtk packages for ff/chrome, and well, I needed a multi-tabbed browser.
(Incidentally I still don't know where I should stick libflashplayer.so so the PA web browser knows how to find it, so I have no flash =/ )
Is there documentation on talking to SLC via dbus? I remember trying to do that back in the day. In the end I hacked an ff extension to create nepomuk bookmarks and added it manually from the "desktop" instead..
Joachim Mairböck
Who ever will be doing this for Firefox, could you please make sure that the addon is also compatible with SeaMonkey (if possible). As far as I know, the other KDE integration addons aren't
Bojan
@<a href="#comment-33313" rel="nofollow">Ivan Čukić</a>: Pozdrav Ivane, evo uzeo sam ovo da pročakam malo. Ja iz Chromiuma mogu da ti pošaljem sve preko NPAPI plugin-a. Window id, URL adresu(otvorenu, zatvorenu, history, pa čak i najposećenije itd...). Moram da napomenem da sam samo ovo radio za Windows-e, ali koliko sam čitao dokumentaciju radi i na GNU/Linuxu isto. Malo me zeza GITORIOUS, kako da uradim clone projekta od tebe? Za sada sam u lokalu, a možda je bolje da koristim bitbucket. Imaš li gde listu zahtjeva šta sve treba da se napravi?
Srdačan pozdrav.
Bojan
@<a href="#comment-32738" rel="nofollow">Ivan Čukić</a>: Sada za vikend ću početi hakovati. Bio sam u maloj gužvi ovih dana. Čujemo se. Pozdrav.
Govik
For Chrome/Chromium great feature would be selecting default session (called users in chrome) for activity.
sandsmark
We *might* be able to get it into chromium proper, though. They have quite good KDE integration already, using KDE settings, KWallet, etc.
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-33283" rel="nofollow">Govik</a>: That in Chr, and Teb-groups in Firefox - that would be an ultimate tool :)
@<a href="#comment-33285" rel="nofollow">sandsmark</a>: Maybe. If somebody wanted to do it.
@<a href="#comment-33280" rel="nofollow">Bojan</a>: Ok, samo prvo pogledaj koliko je moguce uraditi (da li je moguce doci do window id-a i slicno) pre nego sto zaronis u kod.
sandsmark
I'm pretty sure you can't do this with a plugin in chrome.
fasd
Great, great just one thing - don't want to sound disrespectful - as a Firefox user I don't have KDE integration at all* and yet I'm gonna have another "activity" thing shoved up my a**...
* thanks to oxygen-kde theme I've got more or less KDE'ish look at least</div>
Bojan
Pozdrav, ja bih mogao da uradim za Chrome/Iron.
Jason moofang
Sigh, it doesn't look like this is possible with Opera - the extensions framework doesn't let you interact with the outside world at all as far as I can tell, so you can't run dbus calls or call external programs it looks like - short of maybe writing a custom http server on localhost and sending ajax requests at it.
Firefox should be fine though, Firefox extensions can do nigh anything.
Eye
Is someone really using activities? :O I'm still trying to understand what use could I have for them (apart for crashing kded4 in even funnier ways than usual).
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-32920" rel="nofollow">Eye</a>: Activities have nothing to do with kded.

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