[Kde-bindings] KDE/kdebindings

[Richard Dale]

On Thursday 07 June 2007, David Canar wrote:
> On 6/5/07, Richard Dale <rdale at foton.es> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 June 2007, Arno Rehn wrote:
> > > Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007 schrieb Richard Dale:
> > > > On Tuesday 05 June 2007, David Canar wrote:
> > > > > > Anything else?
> > > > >
> > > > > I think it would be good to contact the mono developers to post
> > > > > either an Article in Mono, post news in their site and/or add a
> > > > > Qyoto section to http://www.mono-project.com/Gui_Toolkits
> > > >
> > > > Yes that sounds a good idea, although I'm not sure what the mono
> > > > people think of Qt/KDE bindings. Maybe you or Arno know them better
> > > > than me, and could adapt the KDE dot news article and press release
> > > > for that? I'll write something this evening if I have time, but am a
> > > > bit busy and so it might be tomorrow evening.
> > >
> > > I don't know them either but from what I've heard are the mono people
> > > open-minded and don't just look at stuff that has to do with gnome ;-).
> > > I think if we give something to Miguel de Icaza, he might even put it
> > > up on Monologue (http://www.go-mono.com/monologue).
> >
> > Well I think our own Qt/KDE 'supporters' are the biggest problem when
> > trying to have rational discussions about mono and a Qyoto release.
>
> Some of them are but in the same way there are some GNOME users that
> also oppose to MONO. Anyways, they haven't experienced how much nicer
> is to program in C# compared to C (in my opinion).
> I sent an email to Miguel de Icaza, and I told him about the project
> and that we would like to have a small space in mono-project and here
> is his answer:
> ---------
> Congratulations on the work!   These are great news!
>
> We use the MediaWiki markup, if you can provide us with the text we can
> upload that, I think we might want:
>
> 	* A page for the project (we can give you an account so you can
> 	  maintain that)
>
> 	* To update the "Toolkits" page
>
> 	* List it on the Libraries section (we will need a blurb for
> 	  this).
>
> Miguel.
> ----------
>
> So he is very willing to helps us put something there and give us an
> account to maintain. I could write something (or collect something
> from Richard's blogs and speeches about Qyoto) for those pages (even
> though my English is so horrible I don't know if you want me to :)) If
> you have suggestions/contributions on what would be nice to put on
> those pages I could collect everything and send it to Miguel so he
> could help us publishing it.
> Please let me know.
That's good news from Miguel/Mono. I will try and get into 'writing docs mode' 
soon - I'm afraid I still haven't had time to do much. 

-- Richard