From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 07:29:51 EST
>>> Perhaps we need a webpage with plugin descriptions and usability...
>> Sounds like a good idea to me. KOffice has a nice example IMO:
>> http://www.koffice.org/filters/1.2/index.phtml
>
> AbiWord has plugins for more than just import / export filters?
> (Assuming that is so, can they be categorized on some basis -- maybe
> have a table for import / export filters and separate tables for other
> categories of plugin?)
The two basic categories are (1) imp/exp filters, and (2) tools - the
latter being somewhat ambiguous. The third category is really "other
stuff", the "svg" & "referee" projects being code examples more than
anything useful, the "html" being half-baked in STABLE and disabled
completely now in HEAD in favour of the "xhtml" importer plugin (which is
really an HTML importer and/or a Multipart [X]HTML importer)
- so it can get quite messy.
> Hmm, and I guess some (one) worked for like 1.0.2 but not 1.0.3 (the one
> mentioned in this thread that was not compiled for the latest stable --
> so the table should deal with that as well.
sometimes the problem is with dependent libraries, whether libAiksaurus is
the old GTK+-1.2 version or the new (and possibly broken) GTK+-2.0 version
- who's in charge of aiksaurus these days anyway?
> Are they all available from one location, or do we need a column in the
> table to specify where (URL) to get the plugin?
Most available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/abiword but old
versions are generally hidden.
Have fun,
Frank
Francis James Franklin
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