After looking into and discussing https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1551628 with nick i am not sure the filter is the best way of advising kicad of which plugin to use
I was thinking the best way to solve this would be for each of the plugins to have a static "bool CanYouHandleThis( FILE )" function (obviously with a better name) and when a file is loaded each of the plugins are checked to see if they understand the file, With each of the responses if they are all no, then a error can be reported, and for any that are yes the loading can then be handed off to it/them (if dynamic plugins are enabled at some point in the future (which you would really need some sort of what can you read interface anyway) then you may get to the point where multiple can handle a single file) This would allow the user to not have to set the filter which i am not sure many people would think as the problem anyway as far as i am aware its not the normal method for setting what type a file is. And also move away from blindly trusting extensions Thanks Simon _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
