[Kommander-devel] Kommander & WorKflow

[Thomas Kadauke]

Hello Everyone,

I'm the developer of the WorKflow application, which I started to develop 
during this year's Summer of Code. See here:

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=43624
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=43625

My SoC mentor Kevin Krammer told me there was interest in integrating WorKflow 
into Kommander (or vice versa). Specifically, he thought it would be cool to 
be able to use WorKflow to define a Kommander action. Since WorKflow is 
designed to be integrated into other applications, I think this is easily 
possible, provided the following criteria is met:

WorKflow breaks a task down into commands, which basically process lists of 
different types and usually do have side effects, much like pipes of commands 
in shell scripts. This means that while a workflow can run stand-alone with 
no input and without using other applications, the most powerful feature of 
WorKflow is its ability to be integrated into other applications, since they 
can provide input at runtime for the workflow to process. To get most of the 
collaboration between Kommander and WorKflow, it is important that Kommander 
can provide such a list to WorKflow and that the execution engine can be 
remote controlled by DCOP (or DBUS, for that matter), such that workflows can 
manipulate the current Kommander program.

Now, I don't know anything about Kommander's internals, but I suspect that 
this should be possible to implement without too much work.

Now my question: Are you people interested in such an integration? If so, is 
anyone willing to help? :)

Btw, WorKflow currently runs on KDE 3 using DCOP. Would it be a good idea to 
first port to KDE 4 before integrating it into Kommander, or are you guys 
still improving Kommander for KDE 3?

Thanks,
--Thomas

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