[Kde-pim] Plugin Question re Kontact Headers

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 07 September 2009, Allen Winter wrote:
> On Monday 07 September 2009 4:37:36 am you wrote:
> > On Monday 07 September 2009 09:33:08 Tom Albers wrote:
> > > At Monday 07 September 2009 01:10, you wrote:
> > > > Yah. However it appears the main Kontact developers just don't
> > > > want to pursue that, doesn't fit with their vision of Kontact.
> > > > Fair enough, that's their privilege and I don't want to waste
> > > > their and my time pursing it. I appreciate their making it
> > > > clear at least.
> > >
> > > I've not seen a reaction of the Kontact developers / maintainers
> > > (as far as they exist anyhow).
> >
> > That's the real problem here. We don't really have someone working
> > on Kontact and thus also noone who could make the interface public
> > (which is more work than just installing the headers). I'm in favor
> > of doing that as well btw.
>
> I was the person who took the old kontact/interfaces and made it into
> kontactinterfaces precisely for moving into kdepimlibs.  In fact, I
> had it in kdepimlibs for a day or two.  But then at least 1 former
> Kontact developer convinced me that this wasn't a good idea because
>
> 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.
>
> Basically, we figured any future plugins should/could become part of
> the kdepim module.

Pfew! So I did remember correctly. I was already wondering whether I was 
telling Lindsay nonsense.

Anyway, I just stated what I remembered. I don't really care about 2) so 
I don't object against making the API public.


Regards,
Ingo
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