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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: Detecting omitted attachments
From:       Marc Mutz <Marc.Mutz () uni-bielefeld ! de>
Date:       2002-03-01 13:45:11
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On Thursday 28 February 2002 23:21, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Thursday 28 February 2002 01:19 pm, Volker Augustin wrote:
> > Maybe it's better to search for combinations. "attach" + "file".
> > That still can give false positives. But in that case, false
> > positive is better that a missing attachment.
>
> I think it should be somehow possible to offer functionality like
> this in the form of a plugin of some sort.
>
> For that to work, plugins should be able to register themselves and
> be called before a mail is send. I am sure there are more actions
> where it would be nice to have hooks for plugins.
<snip>

Wasp's nest alert!

As the other two replies to your mail indicate, there's currently much 
interest in plugins for KMail. But we all know that plugins need a 
stable interface. KMail currently lacks interfaces at all. The only 
interface I can think of that could be used for plugins is for filter 
actions. I'm not talking of AEgypten here.

If we start making Kmail from KDE3.1 plugin-able, then we will have a 
mess of incompatible incoherent plugin interfaces down the road.

KMail _first_ needs to be refactored to the bone, _then_ we can look at 
making plugins.

I _strongly_ vote for keeping plugins under the carpet for 3.1.

Yes, AEgypten will come with a plugin interface and KMime will probably 
be build entirely around the concept of extensibility, but I don't see 
a point in making the necessary interfaces public for 3.1, since 
they'll likely change for 3.2.

So please stop watering the mouths of people with throwing plugins into 
the game. _Please_

Marc

- -- 
Marc Mutz <mutz@kde.org>
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