[Kommander-devel] Connecting Kommander with Kross

[Eric Laffoon]

Hi Sebastian,
First off let me say how much I enjoyed meeting with you personally in Dublin. 
It was fun hanging out with you.

I have the latest version of Koffice installed and I note that I can add a 
file link in a spreadsheet to a Kommander dialog and it will open it. I also 
got the latest PyQt so I can use the editor. So now I can see both in action 
as well as use DCOP from a Kommander dialog to do things with the 
spreadsheet. My question is how we might go about integrating...

For instance I could take a sample script and instruct a script widget to 
execute it as python. Not being proficient in Python several things come up 
like how I might use DCOP bindings. Without bindings I can call the script in 
a widget or exec block and then issue a command. There are a lot of fun 
issues for work arounds, but first a question. Where do you store scripts and 
how do you bind them? For instance I'm wondering if I could edit and process 
a script in a Kommander widget, or if it might make more sense to edit it and 
call it via DCOP? How might Kommander integrate Kross scripts?

Particular limitations at the moment with internal integration is that we 
can't yet pass parameters to and from scripts. We can use global variables, 
but then passing to another language poses a problem. We can also use 
environment variables within the instance of the shell we are in.

I'm open to ideas. We may have an advantage in KSpread, which I am excited 
about, but I think we may need to look at how both Kross and Kommander might 
facilitate each other better. It's very late here so maybe you will have a 
more cognitive response than I do right now. ;-)
-- 
Eric Laffoon
Project Lead - kdewebdev module