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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [brainstorm] A kind of Solid for low-level software,
From:       "=?UTF-8?Q?Br=C3=A1ulio_Barros_de_Oliveira?=" <brauliobo () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-07-19 3:10:23
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Yeah, you are right.
But what if we had a multiplatform library that could do the kdm functions
(auth, user switch, etc)?

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Alex Merry <huntedhacker@tiscali.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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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<div dir="ltr">Yeah, you are right.<br>But what if we had a multiplatform library \
that could do the kdm functions (auth, user switch, etc)?<br><br><div \
class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Alex Merry &lt;<a \
href="mailto:huntedhacker@tiscali.co.uk">huntedhacker@tiscali.co.uk</a>&gt; \
wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, \
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On \
Thursday 17 July 2008 09:29:13 Bráulio Barros de Oliveira wrote:<br> &gt; After \
looking to KDM&#39;s and related and I saw there is a many things that<br> &gt; could \
go to multiplatform paradigm present in KDE4.<br> &gt; When I saw KDM inspecting \
directly to linux proc and parsing it files&#39;<br> &gt; strings, that has no \
standard format, I became sad that its was a so<br> &gt; low-level access and so \
platform-dependent.<br> <br>
</div>KDM is kind of a special case, as I understand it. &nbsp;The backend is based \
on<br> XDM and is modified on the basis that, in theory at least, the code could \
be<br> merged back into XDM. &nbsp;As a result, it can&#39;t use things like Qt or \
the KDE<br> libraries, which is where most of our nice abstractions come from.<br>
<br>
Also, KDM only needs to work on unices - MacOS and Windows have their own<br>
login managers.<br>
<br>
Alex<br>
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Ubuntu/Kubuntu: <a href="http://www.ubuntu.org" \
target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.org</a> <a href="http://www.kubuntu.org" \
target="_blank">http://www.kubuntu.org</a><br> <br>
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