I don't think it's possible to get rid of our KDE dependencies. All of them provide us a great bunch of features against their Qt counterparts.<div>So, "removing KDE" is not an option. Considering that this means reimplementing all our peculiar parts. Let's do some exampes:</div>
<div><br></div><div>xmlgui & ktoolbar --> the GUI and the toolbars configurability</div><div>kwallet --> password management</div><div>KIO & kcookiejar --> cookies (In the Qt 4.5.x release, the QNetworkCookieJar was not "enough" for a decent browser. Don't know about its state now)</div>
<div>KIO --> file download management<br>KUriFilter --> url resolution && webshortcuts</div><div>KCM --> setting dialogs</div><div>KBookmarks --> bookmarks management</div><div>KIO & KDirLister --> file && ftp protocols</div>
<div>KParts --> file handling (eg, pdf, video, etc)</div><div>etc..</div><div><br></div><div>The things listed will not work with the s/K/Q sostitution. They have to be reimplemented from scratch. Some of them (eg: xmlgui, KCM) need big changes to let the 2 versions (Qt & KDE based) work together.</div>
<div>That said, if someone comes here saying: "we can port in the platform X, the features A, B, C from kdelibs, but porting the feature D, E will cost us too much. Please get rid of them or let them optional" beh, we can talk about..</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/26 Markus Slopianka <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markus.s@kdemail.net">markus.s@kdemail.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I fully agree that Rekonq should concentrate on the KDE Platform and Desktop first and<br>
then Plasma Netbook.<br>
But after that reducing dependencies may be beneficial for Plasma Mobile (if rekonq is<br>
ever targeting that at all but since the GUI is already flexible, I think it'd make<br>
sense).<br>
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On Thursday 26 August 2010 16:29:23 <a href="mailto:benjamin.poulain@nokia.com">benjamin.poulain@nokia.com</a> wrote:<br>
> On Aug 26, 2010, at 4:16 PM, ext Markus Slopianka wrote:<br>
> > I just had the idea that Rekonq (1.0?) with no/minimized KDE Platform<br>
> > dependencies could be proposed to MeeGo Netbook as default browser<br>
> > instead of current Google Chrome.<br>
><br>
> I don't think it is a good idea in the short term. We are just starting to<br>
> work on Netbook, while Google already made improvements. There are cases<br>
> where QtWebKit is faster than Chrome on Desktop, those are generally<br>
> slower on Atom.<br>
><br>
> Still, I think the question is interesting. How hard do you think it would<br>
> be to have a version of Rekonq without dependency on KDE?<br>
><br>
> cheers,<br>
> Benjamin<br>
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