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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: port of gnome application to kde
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2002-12-02 15:54:21
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Fred Malabre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Gnome application rely on glib which is a low-level lib to take care of lists, 
> ... (I'm not sure what's there actually).
> Anyway, all of this is handled by Qt in KDE.
> 
> If I want to port an application from Gnome to KDE, the dependance of GTK can 
> be removed, but it seems very difficult to remove the dependance of glib.
> 
> My question is: does a regular KDE user has glib installed on his system?
> Otherwise, there is no way to port a Gnome application to KDE... (I was 
> thinking of GnuCash).
> 
Most people have GIMP and will have all of the dependencies for GIMP.

So, the situation appears to be backwards of what you would like it to be.

Could we just do this once and make Qt/KDE based replacements for GNOME 
libraries?

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JRT

 
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