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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE and Pure QT
From:       Mike Richardson <mike () quaking ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-01-11 15:17:29
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On Friday 11 January 2002 11:34 am, Stephan Oehlert wrote:
> > You could keep #ifdef's in your application.
> >
> > It *is* more work to maintain both versions, but it is definitely not
> > impossible. In all fairness, The Kompany decided against this and
> > switched from KDE applications to Qt applications. But Licq
> > (www.licq.org) is an example of an application of which the Qt GUI plugin
> > compiles by default and several #ifdef statements give the plugin KDE
> > enhancements when possible.
>
> I am no Qt expert but wasn't there some Qt functionality that was meant to
> solve exactly this problem (QCOM or so)? AFAIK it allowed certain parts of
> Qt to be replaced by the corresponding parts of KDE such as printing
> dialogs and such during _runtime_. This would allow pure Qt applications to
> get some of the KDE functionality. Any comments on this?

Yes. TT dropped it late on. Apparently its still there but not as an API.

>
> Latez
>   Stephan Oehlert
>
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