--===============0904861131== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1181740.UavHd7nviV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart1181740.UavHd7nviV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 10 February 2005 09:43, Jason Keirstead wrote: > Definitly "Porting to Windows' shoul not be on the 4.0 roadmap. > But what *should* be on the 4.0 roadmap, is removing any assumtions in KDE > based on a given platform. This includes dependancies on X, on certain > files in certain locations, etc. Anything like this should be abstracted > into interfaces that could be re-implimented for another platform. This > will help not only with win32 ports, but also ports to DirectFB, QNX, or > other "weird" systems. Considering that KDE exists to provide "a powerful Free Software graphical= =20 desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations..." I thing we should=20 take advantage of the strengths of the "Linux and Unix" enviroments. =20 Removing assumptions were they do not provide a specific advantage is almos= t=20 always a good thing, but when they do provide an advantage it makes no sens= e=20 to reduce the functionality of our enviroment. Bobby =2D-=20 "It is said that the best government is that which governs least." =2D Henry David Thoreau --nextPart1181740.UavHd7nviV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCC8xVf/NiBNxDDKYRAprTAJ990PXHzzlV25Dhd2z8hkW1DvjjewCeLRoQ 5U/IXdC0zdrLR799Qm0fDvs= =a9YG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1181740.UavHd7nviV-- --===============0904861131== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << --===============0904861131==--