On Tuesday 22 January 2002 04:45 am, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
An application using libQtKDE is somewhere in the middle between a standard
Qt-only application and a true KDE application using the KDE API. But this
is seeing it from the programmer's perspective. For the user, it will much
closer to a true KDE application. Just that the same binary will run
without having KDE installed - with a slightly different look and feel and
less functionality.
Opinions? Do you think that would be useful at all?
Yes, I think this is very important. We are currently in the unfortunate
position that we basically have to compete with Qt itself to get third party
KDE applications. That's not healthy. For the same reason I would like to see
basic parts of the KDE framework extended to other platforms, kde-cygwin
plays an important role in that I think, but that route will take a long
time.
The problem with this is that when you distribute applications on the other
desktop environment you would need to distribute the kde-cygwin part as well
and I wouldn't get my hopes up on many application developers actually jumping
on this bandwaggon, distributing Qt is a big enough hassle in itself as it
is. Just my 2c worth.