From kde-core-devel  Sat Oct 09 13:32:34 1999
From: weis <weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de>
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 13:32:34 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Filters, again >:)
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=93948044906672

Hi,

currently it is only decided that filters are shared libs.

Your approach seems to be reasonable, but I did not think about
the topic very long until now I have to admit ...

Bye
Torben


On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Werner Trobin wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I know that I'm very tiresome (please flame me directly (I'm wearing my
> asbestos long johns) and keep this kind of mails away from the list),
> but I still want to talk about filters...
> 
> Now that we are on our way towards canossa (wow! what a inside joke :)
> I wanted to start another filter discussion, so let's see what we've
> got (I hope I still understand it):
> 
> We've "lost" CORBA (and therefore the network transparency). Due to
> that we don't have to pass the whole file to the filter as the filter
> process has to run on the same machine anyway. There is a nice solution
> IMHO:
> - Import filters: Transfer the filename to the filter (the filter opens
>                   the file). The filter creates e.g. a KoTarStore
>                   object and returns it to the app.
> - Export filters: Transfer the filename and the KoTarStore object to the
>                   filter. After the file is converted the filter writes
>                   it to the disk.
> 
> As I didn't read all the mails (and I've never seen canossa, yet) I don't
> know if this is possible or if you already decided to go for another option.
> 
> Werner
> 
>