[Kde-pim] Plugin Question re Kontact Headers

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Sat Sep 12 12:39:15 BST 2009


On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Dr. Robert Marmorstein wrote:
> > 1) the API hadn't been stabilized or reviewed
> > 2) we wanted to maintain control; we don't see Kontact as a general
> > purpose shell for plugging anything at all.
>
> I think one is irrelevant these days (unless/until we do the plasma
> containment bit) and I think we should strongly reconsider two.
>
> What is the point of having a plug-in architecture if we don't allow
> developers to write plug-ins for that interface?  Why not just hard
> code in the few applications that we support?

Because we didn't want to load all integrated applications by default, 
but dynamically when necessary. The most convenient solution for this 
(in KDE) is the usage plugins.


Regards,
Ingo
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