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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: DCOP D-BUS HAL and new cd's
From:       Kévin_Ottens <ervin () ipsquad ! net>
Date:       2004-09-18 17:05:14
Message-ID: 200409181905.14448.ervin () ipsquad ! net
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Le Samedi 18 Septembre 2004 06:22, Michael Pyne a écrit :
> I think that we should keep in mind that we shouldn't necessarily ignore
> technologies like HAL just because they exist only on one system.  Even our
> Qt toolkit has a setWindowOpacity call that doesn't work (yet) on Linux.
> ;-)

Of course! That's why my current work tries to support several "backends", and 
why I'm willing to keep in touch with the KVM crew who surely knows HAL 
better than me.

> If things like HAL are good enough, then it will either be ported to BSD,
> or BSD will come up with something equivalent which we then then adopt in
> KDE. But we shouldn't hold KDE back because all of our supported platforms
> don't adopt a key library at once.

Hence my bet on supporting several backend for the new kded modules managing 
filesystem volumes. I'm skeptical that HAL will be ported to BSD but I don't 
want to avoid its support either.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
"Ni le maître sans disciple, Ni le disciple sans maître,
Ne font reculer l'ignorance."

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