[dot] Tutorial: Write your own KFile Plugins

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From: Brad Hards <bradh at frogmouth.net>
Dept: start-coding-here-and-now
Date: Tuesday 11/May/2004, @12:24

Tutorial: Write your own KFile Plugins
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   If you've ever wanted to get into KDE coding, but reading tens of
thousands of lines of code to get familiar with one of the bigger
programs was more time than you have, then you might want to check out
the tutorial on KFile plugins 
[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/kfile-plugin/t1.html]
that I've written.

     For those not familiar, a KFile plugin is the meta-data magic that
powers the "MetaInfo" tab when you display the properties of a file
[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/kfile-plugin/pictures-kfile/mng-metadata4.png],
and the Info List View
[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/kfile-plugin/pictures-kfile/konqi-infolistview.png]
in Konqueror. It's easy to write one, and there are a lot of file
formats we don't have support for yet. This is a fun way to get into KDE
development!