This site contains information about the Deskbar architecture. It's used to analyze the current structure of Deskbar and come up with a better design.

Classes and their functions

Model

• DeskbarApplet: Starting point of the application. Initializes GUI and ModuleLoader

• DeskbarHistory: Stores/loads history

• ModuleList: Stores modules

• Keybinder: Binds the global key binding

Module management

• ModuleLoader: Searches modules and loads them

• ModuleContext: Saves information about a module

• Handler: Base class of modules

• Match: Base class of search results

• DirWatcher: Watches a directory for changes

View

• DeskbarUI: Base class for UIs

• CuemiacLayoutProvider: Base class to handle focus issues

• CuemiacUIManager: Handels focus issues and delegates signals to the actual UI

• CuemiacHistoryView: TreeView that displays history items

• CuemiacTreeView: TreeView that displays search results

• CuemiacModel: Data model for CuemiacTreeView

• CellRendererCuemiacCategory: Renders the categories for CuemiacTreeView

• CuemiacAlignedWindow: A window that can align itsself to widget. In this case the list of results will be aligned to the applet.

• LingeringSelectionWindow: Responsible for the effect when you select a search result

• CuemiacHistoryPopup: The window that shows the history items

• CuemiacHeader: The area around the CuemiacEntry

• CuemiacEntry: The entry with the Deskbar icon in it

• EntryHistoryManager: Browse history with up and down keys (bash like)

Preferences

• DeskbarPreferencesUI: The dialog that contains Deskbar's preferences

• AccelEntry: Used to help the user to bind Deskbar to a global shortcut

• ModuleListView: Displays the modules and information about each one

• ModuleInstaller: Install modules (called if you drag a module onto the preferences dialog)

Button UI

• CuemiacButtonUI: Main class of the Button UI

• ToggleEventBox: Used for the arrow and Deskbar icon. A click on them will emit an event.

• CuemiacAppletButton: Contains both the arrow and Deskbar icon (that's what the user usually sees)

Entry UI

• CuemiacEntryUI: Main class for the Entry UI

• CuemiacPopupEntry: Implementation of CuemiacLayoutProvider. Used by CuemiacEntryUI the implement the CuemiacLayoutProvider interface.

UML diagram