Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 25th Feb 2002 17:32 UTC
David Faure is a well known developer in the KDE & Linux community. His work can be found in KFM, Konqueror source code and he recently also picked up KOffice's KWord development. David is also one of the people who have commited in bug squashing under KDE, especially after he got hired by Mandrake Software. Read more for our interview with David regarding Konqueror, KDE object prelinking, Gnome and much more.
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Wonderful idea, but easier said than done. Being the guy who wrote the PSD translator for BeOS, I know from experience a bit about the translation kit and all I can say is that it was fantastic for images, and not much else.
If I recall, Be had originally attempted to do audio/video conversions using the translation kit, back in r3 or 4, and had to drop it for the Media Kit later on with r4.5. This was because the system was too generic. And that's the trouble. Generic is almost always good. But too generic will bite you in the butt.
If you want generic stream translation services, you'll probably fail. On the other hand, you might want to make some variety of specialized translation. For example, specialized translation for images, text documents, etc. You could probably lump it by mime-type.
Anyway, just my 2 cents.