2008/3/27 Jordi Polo <<a href="mailto:mumismo@gmail.com">mumismo@gmail.com</a>>:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/3/28 Riccardo Iaconelli <<a href="mailto:riccardo@kde.org" target="_blank">riccardo@kde.org</a>>:<div class="Ih2E3d"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2008/3/27 Sebastian Kuegler <<a href="mailto:sebas@kde.org" target="_blank">sebas@kde.org</a>>:<div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On Thursday 27 March 2008 15:28:13 Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:<br>
> ...i'd really want to see themes being able to ship config files written in<br>
> lua.<br>
> e.g. I want to turn on std background for the clock I'm designig (the use<br>
> of svgpanel is the main reason) but there's no way I'm able to do that.<br>
><br>
> that's the first usecase that came to me, aaron!<br>
><br>
> now I'm really going to take that nap...<br>
<br>
</div>What does that have to do with lua?<font color="#888888"><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br></div>Lua gives you better, saner, greater and more gloriosus possibility of configurations.<br>And yes, I must say that I hate the booleans in the svg, but... yeah. ;-)</blockquote></div><div>
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And so it does any other programming language. I don't see why Lua should be prevalent here.<br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>For a couple of reasons:<br>- Lua is designed for configuration files<br>- Lua is very easy to integrate and we have Qt bindings¹.<br>
<br>If you want to propose something else, I'm widely open to any kind of suggestions though. =)<br><br>Bye,<br>-Riccardo<br>--<br>[¹] Links:<br clear="all"><a href="http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2007-09/msg00095.html">http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2007-09/msg00095.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.codenix.com/~tolua/lua_qt/">http://www.codenix.com/~tolua/lua_qt/</a><br>FYI, I chatted with the guy of the first link a couple of times on IRC, so we might get some<br>support from him.<br>-- <br>GPG key:<br>
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