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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KStandardDirs & plugins
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-12-10 19:41:00
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On Monday 10 December 2001 01:49 am, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > 2) Is the 'plugins' resource type ok? Essentially kparts, kioslaves and
> > such are also plugins. But calling the resource type 'appplugins' is ugly
> > IMO. I would rather add a resource type 'kdeplugins' for kio slaves & co.
>
> I think parts, ioslaves and kparts plugins belong into $kde_moduledir
> because they are designed to be shared by applications. Why re-invent a
> new resource for that? We already have the 'module' resource :-)

More importantly, the module resource is versioned according to major KDE 
version so that your KDE3 app doesn't load by accident a KDE2 part/plugin.

Cheers,
Waldo
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