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List:       kde-accessibility
Subject:    Re: [Kde-accessibility] Qt and accessibility on Unix
From:       Olaf Jan Schmidt <olaf () amen-online ! de>
Date:       2002-12-02 19:40:03
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[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller]
> In fact libraries that KDE already use like pkgconfig actually contains
> code cut and pasted from glib, and if GStreamer ends ups being shared
> between GNOME and KDE (which we are working with Tim Janssen to make
> happen), then there are also another major component that use this
> basic utility library.

Is it consensus among KDE core developers that there will be glib 
dependencies in future KDE versions? The main reason I was expressing 
ideas to avoid glib dependencies was just that I am not at all familiar 
with KDE core issues and do not wish KDE Accessibility to force KDE into 
a direction the rest of KDE opposes.
 If KDE already has decided to have a glib dependency in future, this 
might make coding the bridges easier.

Pupeno, what do you think? Should we ask on kde-core-devel about what to 
do about this?

While I think that doing a bit extra work to avoid too many dependencies 
is better than adding unnecessary dependencies, it would not make much 
sense trying to avoid glib dependencies if KDE will depend on glib 
anyway.

> Hope I didn't offend anyone with this mail, I am just so tired of
> Microsoft winning because we divide and conquer ourselves.

Nobody in the KDE Accessibility Project spoke of dividing. Our bridges 
will make full use of existing accessibility solutions, and we are very 
grateful for all the work that has already been done outside of KDE.

I can, however, understand that TrollTech does not wish to add glib 
depencies to Qt, as Qt is cross-plattform.

I personally would not mind glib dependencies for Unix versions of Qt or 
for KDE. I just think that our small project does not have the authority 
to decide in whether KDE should have a glib dependency for all of KDE, we 
can only agree to a glib dependency of for the accessibility bridges.


Olaf.

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Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility Project

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