From kde-core-devel  Fri Jul 18 19:26:52 2008
From: Alex Merry <huntedhacker () tiscali ! co ! uk>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:26:52 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [brainstorm] A kind of Solid for low-level software,
Message-Id: <200807182026.52714.huntedhacker () tiscali ! co ! uk>
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On Thursday 17 July 2008 09:29:13 Bráulio Barros de Oliveira wrote:
> After looking to KDM's and related and I saw there is a many things that
> could go to multiplatform paradigm present in KDE4.
> When I saw KDM inspecting directly to linux proc and parsing it files'
> strings, that has no standard format, I became sad that its was a so
> low-level access and so platform-dependent.

KDM is kind of a special case, as I understand it.  The backend is based on 
XDM and is modified on the basis that, in theory at least, the code could be 
merged back into XDM.  As a result, it can't use things like Qt or the KDE 
libraries, which is where most of our nice abstractions come from.

Also, KDM only needs to work on unices - MacOS and Windows have their own 
login managers.

Alex


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