[Kde-imaging] kdeextragear-libs-1/kipi-plugins [POSSIBLY UNSAFE]

[Gilles Caulier]

Le Dimanche 2 Mai 2004 17:38, Jesper K. Pedersen a écrit :
> On Sunday 02 May 2004 19:20, Aurelien Gateau wrote:
> | One question:
> | Are we creating KIPI as a pool of code that we would share between our
> | programs or do we want to create a system which is open to others so that
> | people can write and maintain their own plugins without integrating them
> | in kipi-plugins?
>
> Hmmm both I'd say.
> I think it makes sense to have a lot of plugins in kipi-plugins, so users
> do not have to go around the net downloading each individual plugin.
> Still if people want to develop a plugin outside kipi-plugins that should
> be possible - at some point we should release a libkipi-1.0 which should be
> fairly stable, and which developers can develop pugins for.
>
> | If you believe it's just for us, then I have no problem with the host
> | apps handling disabling some plugins for whatever reason.
> | But if you believe we want to build an open system, then there should not
> | be any code specific to one particular plugin inside the host apps,
> | otherwise we will end up with an unmanageable pile of junk.
>
> What we are developing here is pretty unique, so there will always be some
> edges.
>
> We have two possibilities:
> 1) We can ensure that kipi only contains a subset of features that any host
> app can accept, and as the number of host apps grows, this number will
> approach zero.
>
> 2) We can give the plugins/host apps the possibility to say I dont like
> that plugin or I dont like that host app.
> The comments editor was one, slides shows, and html generation are other
> possibilities.
> Lets be realistic we are not seeing thousands of plugsins, and I think you
> have to distinguish between plugins that the user downloads himself and
> plugins which are in kipi-plugins.
>

==> I think, the plugins choise must be done in the host apps like 'Showimg', 
via the setup dialog. Look here :

http://www.jalix.org/projects/showimg/screenshots.phtml?view=07

> Plugins the user downloads himself from the net can host apps not do
> anything about - how should it know about these - on the other hand. If the
> user downloads them, then he knows explicit about it.
>
> | Aurélien, currently wondering if KIPI is such a good thing after all
>
> Why is that?
>
> Let me put it this way - I'd be very very very unhappy about having
> duplicate features from plugins, which would just make my app harder to
> use, so I really need the possibility to deny certain plugins.
> If you dont feel like this about your app, feel free to pass an empty list
> to the loader.

regards
-- 
Gilles Caulier