D17500: Restore mobipocket extractor

[Matthieu Gallien]

mgallien added a comment.


  In D17500#376221 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D17500#376221>, @aacid wrote:
  
  > In D17500#375753 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D17500#375753>, @astippich wrote:
  >
  > > Oh, thanks for the hint, didn't know that. That makes it a lot more complicated than a straight port :(
  > >  Looking at the code of kdegraphics-mobipocket, shouldn't the thumbnail extractor actually be part of kio-extras? Seems quite kio-specific, and a quick look at lxr didn't reveal any usages of the thumbnailer.
  >
  >
  > Why would it be part of kio-extras? the beauty of plugins is that they can live wherever, no?
  >
  > Do I understand that the answer to my "Is it possible to move the extractor to kdegraphics-mobipocket instead of having it in kfilemetadata? " question is no?
  
  
  There is support for external extractors in KFileMetaData. As far as I know, it has not yeet been used.
  That is probably the safest way to do what you suggest.
  
  > If so, that probably needs fixing, the fact that you can't have external plugins means that the code is probably not as good as it should

REPOSITORY
  R286 KFileMetaData

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D17500

To: astippich, bruns
Cc: mgallien, aacid, kde-frameworks-devel, #baloo, ashaposhnikov, michaelh, astippich, spoorun, ngraham, bruns, abrahams
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