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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: A new framework for embedding ... without CORBA
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date:       1999-09-29 9:16:43
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On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
>> >On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Simon Hausmann wrote:
>> >> > So instead of moving to an open standard for desktop components we move
>> >> > closer to a Qt/TrollTech-only solution? 
>> >
>> >[Snip]
>> >
>> >> So this is no removal of an open desktop component standard IMHO, the idea
>> >> of components remains! It's just a matter of using fast and efficient C++
>> >> interfaces and shared libraries instead of CORBA.
>> >
>> >Like I said: We're moving to a proprietary Qt solution instead of to a solution
>> >based on open standards. I find that a sad development.
>> 
>> But everybody who played (I can't say used) embedding in current OpenParts,
>> knows that it is not useable at all (It _never_ really worked!!!!). So as long
>> as we use that, embedding is just a dream but can't be used. So I think a
>> working and fast solution is preferable over a slow, unstable, not really
>> useable one.
>
>Well the same people that said that OpenParts was really great are now saying
>that casanova is really great and that openparts was broken from the beginning.
>That doesn't offer much confidence does it? 

If you would read koffice@ for a longer time you would have noticed that there
were _always_ problems with embedding wher were never solved. So it's nothing
new!

-- 
Reggie

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