From kmail-devel Tue Sep 10 17:06:04 2002 From: "Aaron J. Seigo" Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 17:06:04 +0000 To: kmail-devel Subject: Re: Stuff I'm working on X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kmail-devel&m=103167762517693 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 10 September 2002 07:05, Mauro DePascale wrote: > It would be very useful to define a common communication protocol for all > the trasport KioSlaves in order to be able to use them in a transparent way > without need to know details about the various protocols on the apps side. this is exactly what kioslaves do. > At the moment the KioSlave interface is good for raw data (basically to > manage block devices). no, they provide a filesystem-like interface to the protocols; they do not provide block device style management (though they can be twisted into doing so ;-) ... the fact that they aren't well suited to raw byte stream type data is actually seen as one area of possible improvement of the KDE technologies. > I think it can be greatly improved extending the > class with a documents/memos oriented data model. this is a slightly different issue, namely making IOSlaves work well (e.g. generically) in a messenging environment. this is probably something that belongs in the messenging environment support of KDE. zack's work in KMFolder is a step in this direction. - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" - Albert Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9fiZ81rcusafx20MRAphgAJ45j2XBx0csKW8kX3T0nrQ/dmQPxwCfUpri 46wZzrzSBO/gcqHD6Nmc7XQ= =wUkZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ KMail Developers mailing list kmail@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmail