On 4/18/05, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@suse.cz> wrote:
> > each applet is a shared library which runs in the kicker process, not
> > in skim itself, so I have to use QXEmbed. I can not make the
> > mainwindow into an applet, because it needs to co-operate with the
> > other part of skim tightly.
> 
>  Why not simply having everything in the applet? You wouldn't need to do any
> communication then at all.
Because at first skim did not have the docking capability, so not
applet was required. Then, some users asked for it: can I dock the
main toolbar of skim into panel, like under windows XP? You see, most
functionality of skim has nothing to do with kicker or applet at all,
so it make none-sence to convert all thing into one applet.

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