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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [Aegypten] Design of new KMail Plug-In interface
From:       David Bishop <david () bishop ! dhs ! org>
Date:       2001-10-29 17:48:30
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On Monday 29 October 2001 10:20 am, Michael Häckel wrote:
> On Monday 29 October 2001 14:34, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
> > (a) install Plug-Ins in different locations
>
> For what is this good?
>
> At least it should not be the task of the user to scan through the file
> system to find the plugin.

For those of us without root access to add plugins globally, we should be 
able to have a plugin directory in our ~/.kde that kmail picks up on.  Or 
rather, I think that was what he was aiming at.  For the same reason mozilla 
sucks because in order to even add themes, you need write access to 
/usr/share/mozilla/themes (or somesuch directory).

> > But to develop a Plug-In for your own use (and by making it so special,
> > - perhaps for some resaerch project on university - that there is no need
> > to mention it in the standard configuration) does not neccessarily mean
> > making something commercial.
>
> But as long as the code is GPL compatible, there is no need for a plugin
> interface, they can also hack KMail directely.

And then have to maintain a copy of cvs, and sync in changes, basically a 
fork.  With a plugin interface, they could track the "official" kde/kmail, 
while keeping their changes seperate, easily.

Of course, this is all off-the-cuff, and I'm not offering code so my opinion 
isn't worth the bytes used to transmit it :-)  But here it is anyways......

- -- 
D.A.Bishop
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