KTextEditor Plugins

[Christoph Cullmann]

> On Sunday 22 of December 2013 16:26:41 Sven Brauch wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 December 2013 16:19:00 Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> > > e.g. the current Kate application interfaces would make a good starting
> > > point, guess needs to be just shrinked down.
> > 
> > Yes, quite possible. We should sit together at the sprint and discuss what
> > kinds of things we want to have in the interface and which of those both
> > applications can easily provide.
> > 
> > > Btw., does KDevelop support multiple main windows or is this then again a
> > > new process?
> > 
> > No. We have discussed this before, currently we don't support it at all. I
> > think launching a new process it not a solution for KDevelop, because
> > unlike
> > kate we keep a large amount of language data in memory, and launching a new
> > process would need to duplicate all this data.
> 
> Please don't take me too much seriously, but what about doing it with shared
> memory (shm, mmap)?
I think the problem is, that the duchain of kdevelop needs more an exclusive read-write lock
which will be even more tricky and stalling if multiple processes try to access it ;)

> 
> > Additionally, our current
> > architecture allows each session (which is bound to a language data
> > repository) to be opened only once, because the underlying database system
> > does not support concurrent access by multiple processes.
> > 
> > > I was about thinking to go for Kate to the "each main window is an own
> > > process" scheme, too. This would make the interfaces A LOT less complex,
> > > as
> > > each plugin would have only one view, even the plugin/view split could be
> > > removed.
> > 
> > I'm still not sure I understand this: If you want to keep split view (which
> > I would really not remove), plugins always have to deal with multiple views
> > anyways. The "two windows" doesn't really introduce any additional
> > complexity over split view, or does it?
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > Sven
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> 

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