From kde-core-devel  Mon Nov 01 17:05:58 1999
From: weis <weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de>
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 17:05:58 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: RE: kparts
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=94147601031803

Hi,

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, David Faure wrote:

> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, David Faure wrote:
> > 
> > > [skip very well-described reasons]
> > > 
> > > > So we discussed about implementing the following:
> > > > 
> > > > Move some features from kparts to libkoffice* and create 
> > a new set of
> > > > interfaces, on top of kparts: A document-view oriented (like
> > > > kparts itself) set of interfaces, providing methods for 
> > > > read-write access to URL referenced documents and for a 
> > simple QWidget 
> > > > based graphical embedding. 
> > > Well, no need to say I'm in favour of this ;)
> > > 
> > > > In addition we might need interfaces to actually read/store
> > > > data, like the koffice store. 
> > > I'm still not sure about this. Please give an example where 
> > it would be
> > > useful :)
> > 
> > I can give you an example: Imagine someone is writing a document
> > database that stores images and postscript files. Of course you
> > may want to embed KGhostView, but of course KGhostView does not
> > know how to load/save from/to the database, so you need a general
> > interface to load/save the contained data (if there is any of course).
> Hmm, this is something else I would say (KDE apps can't do that
> currently), but ok, why not address both.
> URLs can be the answer, no ? Well, if we use kioslaves to load a document...
> 
> > BTW: We can now embed KGhostView in Konqui. That is cool, but very
> > specialized. I can imagine that other apps may want to do that, too!
> > Perhaps the BrowserView stuff can just be a specialization of
> > a more general embedding stuff ?
> Hehe ;)
> With Simon we've been saying 'yes' and 'no' to that quite a few times
> already... with the conclusion that we would wait and see how it looks
> like for general embedding before deciding for konqi.
> And also because mosfet just finished ported kdvi and kghostview, so he
> would kill us if we drop/change BrowserView right now ;-)
> 
> The progress information, for instance, is a bit BrowserView specific...
> 
> > > If kdevelop embeds kwrite, it just wants the text file to be saved
> > > in the usual way kwrite does. No store stuff
> > > (keep in mind the koffice store is actually a file format 
> > implementation,
> > > now a tar file. We don't want that in other apps)
> > > 
> > > > What do you think of that? :-)
> > > You see, you can write such mails ! ;)
> > > 
> > > I just read Torben's input. Excellent !! I love it !
> > 
> > Thanks :-)
> > 
> > And Ron sommer loves me for typing it online :-)
> 
> Who's Ron Sommer ?

The boss of german telekom. A bandit!

Bye
Torben

> --
> David Faure
> faure@kde.org - KDE developer
> david@mandrakesoft.com - Mandrake
> david.faure@cramersystems.com - Cramer Systems
> 
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