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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Development with Mono/C#
From:       Richard Dale <rdale () foton ! es>
Date:       2008-12-01 11:56:18
Message-ID: 200812011156.18513.rdale () foton ! es
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On Monday 01 December 2008 09:00:13 Luciano Montanaro 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> I know there are Qt binding for mono but...
> Hasn't mono its own libraries, doing roughly what Qt offers?
> I think binding an application to both Qt and mono would increase
> dependancies without any great advantage.
>
> Now if you already have a mono application, and want some optional
> integration with KDE, it could be useful.
>
> But if you want to develop a new KDE application, I think there are
> better options:
You're welcome to use them then. Other people may well have different 
preferences to you and enjoy writing code in C#/ Basic .NET and the other CLR 
based languages.

> -Qt/C++ native applications
Yes obviously very good if you can code in C++ and enjoy doing it, then KDE is 
a great framework for writing apps in C++. 

Not everyone can write in C++ though. Additionally, there are many things you 
can do in other languages that you just can't do in C++, even if you know C++ 
well.

> -Qt/Java is supported by the trolls
There are no QtJambi based bindings for KDE4.

> -Python bindings for Qt are being used quite a lot already, as far as I
> see...
Well Python isn't exactly similar to C#. 

Note that there are very complete Ruby bindings for a huge set of the Qt and 
KDE frameworks too.

-- Richard
 
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