plugin shape - delete or not

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Saturday 21 April 2012 Apr, C. Boemann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Trying to get the videoshape to work i ran into the problem that the plugin 
> shape is always loaded in priority of the video shape
> 
> the plugin shape has a priority of 9 vs video shape having a normal 1, so that 
> is obviously a bug, and changing it fixes that prblem.

Well, that's fine then. I'm not sure the priority system didn't work the other way around at some point -- it's one of those things that have a confusing history.

> 
> but thne i got talking with ingwa, about what the purpose of the plugin shape 
> is these days. The conclusion is that it was a more basic attempt at what the 
> unavail shape does.
> 
> So should we remove the plugin shape completely?

No. It has a specific function, namely roundtripping draw:plugin objects. The unavail shape doesn't do that.

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