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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: propsdlg
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2000-04-30 14:50:52
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Simon Hausmann wrote:
> 
> (switching to kde-core-devel due to BC issue :)
> 
> I'd like to hack kpropsdlg to make it possible to add plugin tabs. That
> however would break binary compatibility, because I would have to add
> some member variables (actually I'd add some private d pointers, as they
> are still missing :)

This is a great idea. I would love to see this.

> 
> What is the release dude's opinion on that? :-) Perhaps we could collect
> other binary incompatible changes together with Waldos kimageio changes?

Collecting the changes is a good idea.

Rich.

> 
> Bye,
> Simon
> 
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, David Faure wrote:
> 
> > Sounds like a very good idea !
> > 
> > I think it's worth doing it - and it might not even break BC
> > (the base class for a page is already there, you just want to add some
> > children of it as dl'opened libs...)
> > 
> > On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 08:57:36PM +0200, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I just looked at KPropsDlg and wonder about hacking it to support some kind of \
> > > plugin tabs. (simply via KLibLoader, a servicetype, a mimetype binding and a \
> > > simple interface) 
> > > Actually I'm thinking of providing the koffice document info tabs as plugin \
> > > tabs for the propsdlg (so that one could edit/access the document info stuff \
> > > also via konqueror/kdesktop/whoeveruseskpropsdlg :) 
> > > I think that would be quite nice, but I'm not sure about breaking binary \
> > > compatibility (it would definitely break..) . 
> > > What's your opinion?
> > > Do you think that would be a useful feature?
> > > Do you think it's worth breaking BC?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Ciao,
> > > Simon
> > 
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