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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Filter breakage
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-10-17 21:51:14
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On Wednesday 17 October 2001 02:38 pm, David Faure wrote:
> On Mercredi 17 Octobre 2001 22:09, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:01:54PM +0200, Werner Trobin wrote:
> > > Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > >
> > > We even need the check before. We don't want to show a not available
> > > filter in the file dialog...
> > >
> > > > I am thinking about something like a "plugin manager" or somehting
> > > > like "kappfinder".
> > >
> > > I really think we should try to avoid that. Let's see how slow it gets,
> > > and if it really makes a difference we can still go for a static
> > > solution. IMHO this is not as user friendly, tho.
> >
> > I am wondering why you need this check, IMO the only reason is if you
> > install a filter that needs a certain library on the system. Where KWord
> > can be that library, but libXML can be as well..
>
> In the case of an openoffice filter wrapper, it's even a binary, not a
> library, that we want to check for. So you install KOffice, it installs the
> openoffice-filter-wrapper, which is a very small KoFilter.... this doesn't
> tell you whether the real openoffice filter is installed or not. So you
> need to ask the filter at runtime, and it'll return ok only if openoffice
> is indeed installed.

It's a little bit like "TryExec"...

Cheers,
Waldo
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bastian@kde.org | SuSE Labs KDE Developer | bastian@suse.com

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