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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Development with Mono/C#
From:       Michael Howell <mhowell123 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-12-02 2:02:14
Message-ID: 200812011902.18958.mhowell123 () gmail ! com
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On Sunday 30 November 2008 7:20:47 am Matthias Burtscher 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.
>
> Best regards,
> Matthias
>
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There are bindings for Mono/.NET already.

<opinion>Personally, I don't see the need to make KDE dependent on Mono/.NET, 
Python, Java, or any VM at all.</opinion>
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Michael Howell
mhowell123@gmail.com


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