Contractor is not integrated in Granite

[Mario Guerriero]

Granite needs a class to manage Contractor in an easy way.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Lucas, at the developer meeting we had decided to stick with Contractor and not switch to Extended Actions.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

...and investigate using a format inside .desktop files, similar to ayatana quicklists

[xapantu (xapantu)]

Ah, sorry, I thought we wanted to use extended-actions, sorry :)

@Sergey: regarding this, I thought we could have a little script (in
python?) which is run each time we install a new package (there is a
postinstall script in the packaging, right?), and which update a cache. The
cache would be in /var/cache/contractor, and the files there would be some
contracts so we can avoid changing a lot of things in contractor itself.

Opinions?

2011/12/22 Sergey Davidoff <email address hidden>

> ...and investigate using a format inside .desktop files, similar to
> ayatana quicklists
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/826139
>
> Title:
> Contractor is not integrated in Granite
>
> Status in Granite Framework:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Granite needs a class to manage Contractor in an easy way. Or it might
> be better with extended-actions.
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[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Like for desktop file cache? Yeah, makes sense, but I think we should use a database instead of plain text (otherwise it's not cache at all). This way we can split Contractor in two parts: something like update-desktop-database that builds the DB and a client that gets data from the DB.

The DB building part should use XDG_DATA_DIRS and look in a custom directory (e.g. fallback_contracts in the xdg data dir) if there are no contractor entries in the desktop file.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

And the "little script" will probably be in Vala ;)