plugin shape - delete or not

[Inge Wallin]

On Sunday, April 22, 2012 09:35:36 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> 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.

I must say I'm curious. What is it missing? 

The unavail shape is designed to roundtrip everything so if it's failing I 
would like to fix it.