Proposal: dlopening the file dialog

[David Faure]

On Thursday 29 March 2007, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On čt 29. března 2007, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> > David Faure said the following, On 2007-03-29 20:38:
> > > Coolo and Dirk convinced me yesterday of the following approach:
> >
> > [..]
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > A quick question here: how about so called "FileDialog daemon":
> > - by behaviour very similar to kdialog app
> > - starting at KDE startup and then listening to DBUS requests.
> 
>  I was about to ask the same, but if KFileDialog will be abstracted so that it 
> will be possible to load all the internals using dlopen, then I expect 
> changing the abstraction to use something else instead should be doable as 
> well, right?

Hmm, only if there are no pointers in the interface.
If the KAbstractFileWidget interface says:
    virtual KToolBar *toolBar() const;
    virtual KComboBox *locationEdit() const;
    virtual KComboBox *filterWidget() const;
then it can't be implemented using IPC....

But good thing you mention it, I looked around and those are used rarely enough,
(mostly in those rare subclasses), so they could be in libkfile itself and not in the interface.

-- 
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