[Kde-imaging] Reg Libkipi attributes() function

Angelo Naselli anaselli at linux.it
Mon Jul 17 23:05:40 CEST 2006


Alle 22:18, lunedì 17 luglio 2006, Vardhman Jain ha scritto:
> Hi folks,
>        I have started breaking libkipi binary compatibility (:)). Just added
> the HostSupportsTags feature in the enum list of features. Now Applications
> can support this feature.
> I would like to discuss some implementation issues here, which will come
> during further feature addition to this attributes() set of functions.
> 
> The host application are expected to return a QMap <QString, QVariant> for
> the attributes() function.
> The map contents (key, value) need to be standardized so that plugins can
> take out some attribute from the map using a well defined key. For the tags
> feature I have used the String "tags" as the key.
> 
> I would look forward for other developers comment regarding this sort of
> standardization. Where should guidlines regarding this be kept noted. I will
> update the inline documentation.  For the time being I hope that should be
> sufficient.
Please add also a line on NEWS file, that could help to have an up to date
file during developing, and easy to fill after, for releasing.

Thanks

Angelo
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