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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Show-anything widget
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       1999-09-17 6:40:29
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On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Bo Thorsen wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am writing a new message viewer for NewKRN. As you probably know, a News
> > reader (as a mail reader) message viewer has to do many things, and should
> > be able to show almost arbitrary files.
> > 
> > Now, since I am going to do this anyhow, I was wondering if there is
> > interest in a "show-anything widget". That's basically a widget that will
> > get a chunk of data and a mime type and will then proceed to embed in
> > itself the right OpenPart.
> > 
> > Of course, if that widget already exists, I will be very happy to just use
> 
> You ought to coordinate this with the kmail guys, since these widgets
> should not be different.

KMail already has such a widget, and it is used in KRN. However I am not
really happy with it for some reasons that are not really much beyond
personal preference.

> One might even argue that the apps should not be
> different.

In NewKrn I am more interested in doing "radical" features that what any
shared project would allow. I am just finishing the "SQL Query" folder
type for example :-)

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