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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Stuff I'm working on
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2002-09-10 17:06:04
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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.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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