On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org> wrote:

KDE would still create great applications based on Qt, just as we do now, but
without the additional layering of the KDE libraries on top of Qt.

KDE is much more than the libraries, actually if KDE would be about libraries
already now nobody would be interested anymore. KDE is community, and a
community creating great software for end-users. We have tons of applications
people love to use, and a community who loves to create them. How many
libraries they use, and how the stack is layered doesn't really matter, does
it? For technical details, yes, but there actually maintaining our platform as
integral part of Qt seems advantageous to having a separate layer, which is
hard to sell, sometimes hard to use, and very hard to maintain.

The KDE community would still do the same as now, the differentiating factor
would still be creating great software for end-users. If Qt would have
provided everything we needed we wouldn't have created kdelibs. Assuming the
obstacles we have seen and still see in actively being part of Qt can be
removed, we wouldn't have a strong need for our own special platform, would
we?