From kde-core-devel  Wed Jul 01 08:35:33 2009
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien_G=E2teau?= <aurelien.gateau () canonical ! com>
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:35:33 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Repositioning the KDE brand
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nf2 wrote:

> * System (or Platform, or infrastructure) technologies like ioslaves
> or kwallet: While KDE has been the "market leader" for a long time,
> comparable technologies have caught up or have even become "cooler".
> Therefore KDE could benefit from "incorporating" them. The "Platform"
> should move to the layer below KDE - things that are eager to be
> shared by everyone. You won't love me for that, but honestly: That
> part of the world should be ruled by GLib and GObjects...

I don't think anyone with experience in Qt and QObject would like to
rewrite his work with GObject. I had to work with this and it was really
painful. At least in plain C. It's probably nicer when using higher
level languages.

Aurélien