[Kde-bindings] KDE/kdebindings/csharp

[Arno Rehn]

On Tuesday 01 July 2008 14:02:22 Richard Dale wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 July 2008 12:33:09 Arno Rehn wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 July 2008 12:23:03 Richard Dale wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 01 July 2008 02:23:34 Arno Rehn wrote:
> > > > SVN commit 826584 by arnorehn:
> > > >
> > > > * Added KMonoPluginFactory. Behaves similar to KRubyPluginFactory:
> > > > 	* If the keyword is Foo/Bar.dll, a class 'Bar' is searched in the
> > > > 	  namespace 'Foo'.
> > > > 	* This class has to have a constructor that takes a QObject (the
> > > > 	  parent) and a List<QVariant> (the arguments).
> > > > * Moved the runtime initialization from the static SmokeInvocation
> > > >   constructor to a new method 'InitRuntime'. This is necessary for
> > > >   KMonoPluginFactory to work.
> > >
> > > Sounds good we should be able to load C# plasma applets now. But I'm
> > > not sure about the name as it sounds like it should be
> > > KimonoPluginFactory to me, if that is project it is part of?
> >
> > Well, it's also KRubyPluginFactory and not KorundumPluginFactory ;).
>
> Yes you're right - I didn't actually invent that name, but I think I would
> have called it that.
>
> > But I'm not sure about the name, either. If we ever port this to Windows,
> > we'll probably want to use the original .NET API and not Mono. So maybe
> > KimonoPluginFactory is indeed better.
>
> I was thinking it would be kcsharppluginfactory to be the same as
> krubypluginfactory, but that doesn't really roll off the tongue very
> easily.
>
> One other thing this comment:
>
> // a path in the form Foo/Bar.dll results in the class Bar in the namespace
> Foo
>
> Won't we have lower case names just like the ruby ones, eg
> foo_bar_baz/my_stuff.dll that would be converted to class MyStuff in
> namespace FooBarBaz?
I thought about that - but in C# it's common to have camel case everywhere, so 
I didn't see a need for that. Even the assemblies are all named like that.

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Arno Rehn
arno at arnorehn.de