[Kde-pim] Plugin Question re Kontact Headers

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 05:50:11 am Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> Yes, that way is broken. See above. A possible solution for this would 
> be to make kontactinterfaces public API. But we do not want to do so. 
> Just recently there was a short discussion about Kontact plugins and we 
> decided not to support the development of arbitrary Kontact plugins by 
> making the plugin interfaces public. Unfortunately, I cannot remember 
> in which thread this was discussed.

Unfortunately I didn't have much look searching for the thread - my I ask why 
there will be no public interface for Plugins? will this be a permanent state 
of affairs?

I imagine the move to akonadi and a full component based Kontact/KMail would 
be one reason, but I'd hope that once that has finalised we could revisit it.

> 
> The bottom line is that the development of Kontact plugins is restricted 
> to kdepim. So if you want to develop a Kontact plugin then you should 
> do so in kdepim.
> 

I'd really hope this is not a permanent policy because it pretty much kills 
third part development. of plugins. One of the reasons Outlook is so 
successful and useful is the rich set of third party addons for it.

I was hoping to develop a mythtv status monitor plugin for Kontact, but there 
no much point if it has to be included in kdepim - that level of dependencies 
is never going to fly.

-- 
Lindsay
http://blackpaw.jalbum.net/home
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