From kde-core-devel  Mon Nov 17 21:39:21 2003
From: "Roberto Alsina" <ralsina () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:39:21 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: freedesktop.org interview for OSNews
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=106910459021625


> On Monday 17 November 2003 12:06, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> ...
>> I think those ideas are spot on. The unified MIME associations didn't
>> make
>> it in time for KDE 3.2, but I hope to get that implemented in the next
>> KDE
>> release. Sharing a VFS framework will be somewhat more difficult Since
>> the
>> functionality that KIO offers is quite complex it may not really be
>> feasible to fold that all in a common layer. What would be feasible is
>> to
>> take a basic subset of functionality common to both VFS and KIO and
>> standardize an interface for that. The goal would then be to give
>> applications the possibility to fall-back to the other technology with
>> some
>> degradation of service in case a specific scheme (e.g. http, ftp, ldap)
>> is
>> not available via the native framework. That would also be useful for
>> third
>> party applications that do not want to link against VFS or KIO.
>
> I think the major issue is that KDE can use C-libs, but Gnome can't use
> C++-libs, so the things which might be unified, will always end up as
> C-libraries -> i.e. no Qt/KDE, but probably Gtk/Gnome libraries.

Well, the work in KDE and Qt bindings has really made C-over-C++ wrappers
way simpler than they were, say, 5 years ago. Why should KDE always live
with a wrapper when it can go both ways?

> Some time ago I had a look at a gnome vfs-module (since I'd actually like
> to
> write a vfs-module for the lanbrowsing daemon, lisa), and it was, well, I
> didn't like it. Lots of macros, structures with function pointers and
> other
> things, which can be done much nicer using C++.

Precisely. A C wrapper over C++ implementation allows for a better quality
implementation, IMVHO.

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