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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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