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This week has seen my first (and second, by the way) commit into KDE SVN! Another milestone reached 🙂

There are mostly stubs into the new smartsave/ folder, and a bit of documentation for the interfaces; there also is a test program, taken from one of Techbase tutorials: a very simple notepad, which will be the very first application to use the new dialog system, and it will be useful for trying functionalities.

No, don’t try it now: it just falls back to the standard KFileDialog class; let me write some real implementations before toying with it!

For now, the idea is to have an abstract class, Nepomuk::SuggestionProvider, which may be subclassed by any application (there’s, for now, just a method to be implemented), and an instance of it will be passed to the dialog UI for getting personalized suggestions, in form of Nepomuk::Annotation objects. These objects need to be created by the developer in the way he wants, by hand or using any Nepomuk::AnnotationPlugin, but things may change later on.

The second important class is Nepomuk::KSmartDialog (I called it ‘K’ just to mimic KFileDialog, but if you don’t like it, I can drop that ‘K’), which is a subclass of the actual file dialog, and which will provide a couple of static methods for getting or setting document metadata; of course, each of these methods will use the SuggestionProvider subclass as stated before.

These are the two important exported classes, at least today; expect some working code in the next days!

Oh, by the way: tomorrow is the official GSoC start! Godspeed to any GSoCer around PlanetKDE!