On 29 December 2011 21:16, Alex Fiestas <afies...@kde.org> wrote: >> I'm not sure that koabstraction is the right thing for what you need -- >> it's an abstraction to make it easy to create new apps that use the >> calligra backend, that's true, but it's for viewers and other >> interactive applications. I'd say something cstester-like is the right >> way to go for what youneed > > > As far as I can see all Calligra apps implement "Thumbnails" more or less, > KoAbstraction would be the place to put a generic Thumbnail API so the code > for cstester-converter-atopixmap can be unified don't you think ?
That's exactly how I see this. The functionality of making snapshots (e.g. for thumbnails of any purpose) is a part of library. ctester is an app. We want expose features through libraries with eventually-public-API not throug code that one could copy-paste (from ctester?) or through executing the external (ctester) process. This is KDE/Qt way of thinking. Just like we use QPainter/QPixmap to perform image transformations and we're usually not calling external imagemagick process to do the same. >> but it's for viewers and other >> interactive applications. KoAbstraction is a place for supporting more use cases belonging to the same 'family', just like QPixmap has some static methods strictly related to abstracting pixmap operations (regardless of the memory representation). While using KoAbstraction in a custom app I even had a simple thumbnail abstracting code but kept it private since it was an incomplete draft. Even more: in ideal world, eventually, ctester would use these features of KoAbstraction, for its own benefit. I see that efforts driven by real use cases help to truly expand utility libs like the KoAbstraction into right direction. Thanks, Alex. -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org) KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org) _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
