From kde-devel  Fri Sep 17 13:49:00 1999
From: Simon Hausmann <shaus () uermel ! med ! Uni-Magdeburg ! DE>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:49:00 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Show-anything widget
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Hmm, this topic reminds me of something related:

We definitely need to find a solution to the current CORBA issue *now*,
as such a widget (as a part) requires the hosting app to use OPMainWindow,
which again requires that the main widget of the app is a full-fledged
part, too, which again requires that the developer needs to know about
OpenParts. (in short words: if you want to embed a part, then the
embedding app has to be a full-fledged OpenParts Application)

And if we are going to change the component environment, then
we should do (read:finalize,finish) it ASAP, as more and more people dive
into this technology now.

I personally consider the KOM/OP API to be stable, but the backend for
accessing such objects will change, and developers will probably not like
it, if they learn the current framework and well them a month later that
we dropped CORBA ;-)

...just some random thoughts... :-)

Greetings,
 Simon

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
> it ;-)
> 
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> 
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