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It seems that, in the case of your examples, the icon should really be updated from the relevant applications, as the data changes. For example, the task count would be incremented right after a task is added, not on a timed basis. However, obviously this isn't practical for retrofitting onto the closed-source Nokia apps.
Your proposed daemon sounds like it's basically a task scheduler - Harmattan provides this out of the box with timed. It even supports DBus signals, as in your example. However, the major problem is that it's difficult to add new tasks; either an extremely long dbus-send command or use of the somewhat complicated libtimed library is required. It isn't that bad though - check out the source to my Calendarrr app for an example.
Your proposed daemon sounds like it's basically a task scheduler - Harmattan provides this out of the box with timed. It even supports DBus signals, as in your example. However, the major problem is that it's difficult to add new tasks; either an extremely long dbus-send command or use of the somewhat complicated libtimed library is required. It isn't that bad though - check out the source to my Calendarrr app for an example.
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For example my todo app could display the number of undone tasks, and e-mail the number of unread messages. The possibility is there as the icons are updated continuously from their respective icons.
But each app has to install a daemon to do the job and that is completely inefficient. I thought of creating a daemon that reads job files in a certain directory so that all applications can add new job description text files there for example like this:
description "updates todo icon with not completed tasks" process name #process that generates the icon /opt/oobTodo/bin/updateIcon #the process can take arguments method #choose between (time, dbus signal, dbus event, ..., ...) #dbus event should be a system event like headphones #attached, keyboard open etc time, dbus period #in minutes 3600 dbus method name updateTodo dbus arguments #comma seperated 9Any ideas how this could be solved? An installable application in ovi and explicit requirement from the user to download it in other apps description? Link inside the app, if it doesn't find it show a download link for the system in ovi?
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