On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, David Faure wrote:
> 
> Our master Torben has once more improved KDE's framework by ....
> rewriting what used to be openparts, without using CORBA anymore,
> just plain shared libraries. The benefits are huge, as you all guess,
> and this is something we should consider very seriously.
> Please note that this DOESN'T mean removing CORBA all together. 
> We still need it for all the other cases where we use it right now :
> talking to a running application (kfmclient<->konqueror/kdesktop, kmail, ...)
> and scripting an application (which is the same kind of thing in fact).

So instead of moving to an open standard for desktop components we move
closer to a Qt/TrollTech-only solution? 

Waldo