[Kde-imaging] libkipi version 2

[Colin Guthrie]

Achim Bohnet wrote:
> Ditto if a plugins can handle KIO URLs or only a local path.

I would say there should never be a need for this. I believe the new
libkipi should totally abstract the fact that a filesystem is behind any
host application.

The API should be able to abstract calls to get the [sub]collections and
the items they contain. The plugin can then work on the data and pass it
back to the host application.

The host deals with how the images are stored, the plugins shouldn't care.

This structure would mean you could create a "host bridge" for e.g.
Flickr which would allow you to run e.g. Slideshow or GPSsync etc.
directly off the flickr backend store. Obviously not all plugins would
be useful (GPS one is tenuous at best anyway!) but I think it would be a
reasonable goal if we are redoing things.

Col.

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