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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: some thoughts about the shell
From:       Werner Trobin <wtrobin () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-07-05 20:46:13
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David Faure wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 10:16:40PM +0200, Werner Trobin wrote:
> > Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Werner Trobin wrote:
> > >
> > > > What about removing all the main.cc files and providing only one
> > > > executable? Then we could create links to this executable
> > > > (e.g. the executable is named koffice and we link kword to koffice).
> > > > On startup we check argv[0] and use this to load the correct
> > > > library. This should also work for the foo_newaboutdata magic.
> > >
> > > Ah, yes, we were talking about that on the linuxtag :-)
> > > (merging that even with koshell)
> > >
> > > There's just one Problem I see: The koffice components would no more be
> > > KLMs...
> [I don't see why. Whatever executable we end up with, can be made a KLM, no ?]
> 
> > oic...
> ? :)
> 
> > Well, we (Simon and I) agreed on IRC that I'll start working on
> > that tomorrow. If you have any objections/advices please speak
> > up now. David?
> 
> Well, I'm fine with this, but I don't really see the point. Seems like some
> development effort for not much in the end... Ok, writing a new KOffice app will
> require a bit less code (no shell), but not much less: most of the
> app-specific stuff remains, but somewhere else, in the doc.
> 
> Changing the framework once again seems a waste of time to me. Users expect great
> KOffice apps (in terms of features) with great filters (which seems to be where
> we're still way behind...). Not a hyper cool development framework - everyone starts
> a new KDE app one day or another, but not a new KOffice app ;-)
> 
> Just my 2 cents. Maybe I just miss the point here.

Okay... so let's keep that mails and postpone the implementation.
I still think we should do what Simon suggested. At the moment
I've got lots of other stuff on my TODO list too, so I'll simply
do that first :)

-- 
Werner Trobin - wtrobin@mandrakesoft.com

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