<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Cornelius Schumacher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:schumacher@kde.org">schumacher@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thursday 28 October 2010 John Layt wrote:<br>
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> Big questions. Anyone with big answers? :-)<br>
<br>
</div>Here is a big answer:<br>
<br>
Let's merge Qt and the KDE development platform. Let's put all KDE libraries,<br>
support libraries, platform modules into Qt, remove the redundancies in Qt,<br>
and polish it into one nice consistent set of APIs, providing both, the<br>
wonderful KDE integration, consistency and convenience, as well as the<br>
simplicity and portability of the Qt platform.<br>
<br>
I know what you think ("madness", "no", "KDE 5", "impossible", "governance",<br>
"binary compatibility", "Nokia", "impossible", ...), but if you put that aside<br>
for a while and think big, wouldn't that be a wonderful answer to all the<br>
struggles we have with kdelibs?<br>
<br>
We all love Qt, without it KDE wouldn't exist. We also love the KDE<br>
development platform, it provides all that what Qt doesn't have or didn't have<br>
at some point in time. But is there still a real reason to keep them separate?<br>
Wouldn't it be much more elegant, if you wouldn't have to decide, if to use<br>
some KDE classes or write a "qt-only" application, if you would get all the<br>
wonders of KDE from Qt in one consistent way?<br></blockquote><div><br>Sorry for butting in, but I just have to ask: Do you basically mean that the<br>"KDE Development Platform" cease to be "KDE" and become part of Qt?<br>
Let's say this were possible, would KDE (or marketing-compliant, KDE SC) then<br>become simply apps using Qt, probably with tighter platform integration on,<br>for example, Linux?<br><br>I mean, the thread started out as "why kdelibs?". With the answer you offered,<br>
the question in my mind now becomes "why KDE at all?" Or "what would KDE's<br>selling/differentiating factor be?<br><br>I hope I don't come off as trolling or offensive. I'm just genuinely curious about<br>
the effects of such a future with regards to KDE's independent identity.<br><br><br></div></div>-- <br>Regards,<br><br>Juan Carlos Torres<br>Jucato<br><br>