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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Boredom, MP3s, KDE: this
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-10-04 21:18:14
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On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Charles wrote :
>On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, David Faure wrote:
>> On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Charles wrote :
>> >Speaking of which, while doing the class, I had noticed of a somewhat
>> > fatal flaw in the kiolibraries.
>> >
>> >You can't define your own "Atoms" for the files. (or can you?)
>>
>> No you can't, indeed.
>>
>> >For example, a rio file has, in addition to a name, also has position,
>> >bitrate, samplerate, etc.  You should be able to have these types as part
>> > of the ioslave.
>>
>> Good point.
>>
>> >Konq will then pick up those fields and put it into the list.  the
>> > kioslave itself will have the fieldname i18ned.
>>
>> Yeah, the problem is that currently KFileItem looks for specific atoms, it
>> doesn't "look at what's coming". It would need to be able to have some QMap
>> for the "generic atoms", and have a way to get the names for them from the
>> ioslave (i.e. new method in SlaveBase & Job....).
>> And someone would have to make sure those atoms (which are numbers)
>> are unique among all ioslaves ;-)
>>
>> Something for KDE 3.0, in any case :-)
>
>We're talking about KDE 3 before we release KDE 2.0? :)

Well, 2.0 is already frozen, in case you didn't know :-)

>I think in an ideal situation, we still have the integer Atom IDs, an in 
>addition a set of generic atoms.

Still has to be an integer, for performance reasons. But that shouldn't be a problem.

If it was only for passing those atoms around, we could already do that,
but the new method to query the slave means bin incompat....

>I feel, if we're breaking BC for 2.1 
>anyway, we should probably do it then.

I hope we won't, but in case we do, I agree.

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