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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Multi-Protocol IO-Slave
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-01-17 5:24:15
Message-ID: 200801170624.16072.thiago () kde ! org
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nf2 wrote:
>I regret that i made those controversial statements. I just tried to
>find reasons why KIO has never been linked outside KDE (never bekame
>cross desktop), which from an historical point of view is sad (There
>would have been lots of demand for that, as Gnome-VFS never worked that
>well). Now, however, i believe the situation is different.

I believe it's a mix of NIH Syndrome, with an incomprehension of what the 
ioslaves really are. People were probably put off by imagining you had to 
link to KIO (and thus, KDE and Qt libraries) in order to use KIO.

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