From kde-core-devel  Thu Oct 19 17:43:07 2006
From: Jaroslaw Staniek <js () iidea ! pl>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:43:07 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: kross in kdelibs
Message-Id: <4537B92B.80408 () iidea ! pl>
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Carsten Niehaus said the following, On 2006-10-19 19:10:

> Am Donnerstag 19 Oktober 2006 18:16 schrieb Sebastian Sauer:
> 
>>Something like 1.5 years ago work on a framework to provide embedded
>>scripting for applications was started. Since that time the code improved,
>>growed, got ported, followed KISS and therefore got smaller, got new bugs,
>>new fixes and is finally near a shape where I guess other applications
>>outside of KOffice could start to profit from it.
> 
> 
> I wonder if it could be generalized enough so that pure Qt4 apps like Scribus 
> could use it as well. In IRC the scribus folks showed a theoretic interest, 
> at least.

I would rather use "wrapped" term instead of "generalized", but I know what do 
you mean.
E.g. having a light KService replacement for Qt-only apps could be usable 
(QPluginLoader?) - I am looking at the same idea for KexiDB. Enabling utility 
libs for Qt-only devs is worth considering.

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