[gst-devel] Use of GstElementFactory::klass property

[Wim Taymans]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 15:32 +0100, Andy Wingo wrote:
> Hi Edward,
> 
> On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 13:46 +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"
> 
> Ooh, this is a nice one.
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.gstreamer.devel/3609
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.gstreamer.devel/4900
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.gstreamer.devel/5521
> 
> > 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.
> 
> There should not be levels. We should just interpret the class as a
> slash-separated keyword list. (Slash-separated for backwards
> compatibility.)

Without looking at previous discussions I just checked in 
docs/design/draft-klass.txt

Wim

> 
> Go for it dude,
-- 
Wim Taymans <wim at fluendo.com>