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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: A new framework for embedding ... without CORBA
From:       Matthias Elter <me () main-echo ! net>
Date:       1999-09-29 8:25:01
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On Mit, 29 Sep 1999, Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> >On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> >
> >> 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? 
> >
> >Well, let's fact it: If you want to use OpenParts without libqt, then you
> >have to re-implement everything, so we depend on Qt anyway, and I
> >personally see absolutely no problem here (just in contrary, I
> >(personally) am very happy with that)
(..)

But OpenParts has a open interface right now. It's possible for example to
write a GTK implementation of OpenParts. We lose this with canossa.

Greetings, Matthias

-- 
Matthias Elter
me@kde.org / me@main-echo.net
KDE developer

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