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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Development with Mono/C#
From:       Matthias Burtscher <matthias.burtscher () gmx ! at>
Date:       2008-11-30 14:46:31
Message-ID: 1228056391.17057.1.camel () desktop
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Thank's for your reply!

I also don't want to start a flame-war in here. I think every opinion
has to be respected, especially on this topic.



On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 15:33 +0100, Alexis Ménard wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Matthias Burtscher
> <matthias.burtscher@gmx.at> wrote:
>         Hello out there!
>         
>         Yesterday I had the pleasure to listen to speech on KDE4
>         (especially KDE
>         4.2 and future) again and I really like it. I think that KDE
>         has much
>         more potential to be the one future desktop on Linux. I'm
>         saying this
>         although I'm using Gnome (Ubuntu) mostly.
>         
>         But I am wondering why there is no approach to bring new
>         technologies
>         like Mono into KDE. I think it would be a much more developer
>         friendly
>         and also faster and cleaner way to build applications. And I
>         think that
>         most of you - who know the concept behind Mono/.Net - agree
>         with this.
> 
> Depending on a closed company like Microsoft to have new APIs, new
> technologies, new improvements is i think a bad point. Mono just
> implement .Net APIs, this project has no creativity. Ok .Net is
> developer friendly, yes but comparing to first point it is nothing. We
> have already a toolkit with Qt which save us a bit from C++ crap.
> Gnome start to port their applications to Mono, that is their choices.
> I don't want to start a flameware here but i think it is a very bad
> idea.
> 
> *not completly neutral*
> Another point is that the innvation in Qt is more faster than Mono.
>  
>         
>         
>         I know that there are QT bindings (Qyoto) for Mono/.Net, but I
>         miss
>         bindings/libraries for the KDE core. There isn't even any page
>         on the
>         KDE website which covers the topic of developing for KDE on
>         Mono basis.
> 
> Having binding for non C++ developpers is a good point, but i guess
> that KDE won't to push Mono more.
>  
>         
>         Since I'm not the guru who has the know-how to create these
>         libraries
>         and bindings, I just want to know if there is any approach on
>         providing
>         such things or not.
>         
>         Best regards,
>         Matthias
>         
>         
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