From: David S. <ds...@sc...> - 2006-02-28 14:25:32
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 01:46:13PM +0000, Edward Hervey wrote: > GstElementFactory has this, seamingly, very useful property called > klass. The only documentation about it however is lost somewhere in > the description of the GstElementDetails structure: > "gchar *klass; type of element, as hierarchy" > > The problem is two-fold: > 1/ There isn't any established standard of which klass you should put > a ElementFactory in and what the meaning of every class hierarchy > means. > The proposition is to first document properly every class hierarchy > somewhere (What should go in every (sub-)level, what's the policy on > creating new (sub-)levels, ....). This is useful both for application > and plugin developers, so I guess it should go in the ADM. One of the reasons nothing has ever usefully been done with this field is because discussions get sidetracked into how a heirarchy is not appropriate for this field and that a list of categories would be better. I sidetrack the discussion now. Hopefully it will get somewhere this time. dave... -- David Schleef Big Kitten LLC (http://www.bigkitten.com/) -- data acquisition on Linux |