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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kate interface
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-12-22 15:26:36
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On Friday 21 December 2001 22:56, Falk Brettschneider wrote:
> Hi,
> Being involved in Kate due KDevelop hacking I'd be interested in getting 
> the Kate interface into kdelibs.
> I think it should be merged with the Texteditor stuff there.
> Roland Krause made the Kate interface really usuable for other programs, 
> it's been used in Gideon and KDevelop now.
> So there's a good reason to move it from kdebase to kdelibs.
> After all I don't want KDevelop to be dependent from kdebase, but it is 
> at present.

Why ? Isn't this the whole reason for the TextEditor interface ?
The goal is that you use a generic interface, not a kate-specific interface.
If you use the TextEditor interface, and if Kate provides an implementation
of it, and if the interface is complete enough, then you don't _need_ kdebase
to be present (assuming kdelibs provides a simpler implementation of
the interface, say KEdit). It will simply work better if kdebase is installed,
because then kate will be present and used.

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