[Kde-bindings] KDE Development with Mono/C#

[Arno Rehn]

Hi Matthias,

there are actually pretty well maintained and working C# bindings for KDE, 
too. We have working bindings for akonadi, khtml, kdelibs, ktexteditor, 
nepomuk, plasma, qscintilla, qtscript, qttest, qtuitools, qtwebkit, rest of Qt 
and soprano. It's possible to write Plasma applets, KIO slaves and any other 
kind of KDE plugin.
The main place for discussing bindings issues is kde-bindings at kde.org and 
#kde-bindings on freenode. The C# bindings developers are Richard Dale and 
myself.
But you're right, we really need to improve the docs and somewhen we should 
publish an article on the dot saying "hey, there are working C# KDE bindings 
out there, look what you can do with them!" :)

On Sunday 30 November 2008 17:42:02 Cyrille Berger wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> Yes the lack of documentation is a big issue for bindings, some of it has
> started on techbase [1]. There is currently not much for C#/Mono, but I am
> pretty sure any help would be appreciated for that effort.
>
> [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages
>
> On Sunday 30 November 2008, Matthias Burtscher wrote:
> > Hello out there!
> >
> > Yesterday I had the pleasure to listen to speech on KDE4 (especially KDE
> > 4.2 and future) again and I really like it. I think that KDE has much
> > more potential to be the one future desktop on Linux. I'm saying this
> > although I'm using Gnome (Ubuntu) mostly.
> >
> > But I am wondering why there is no approach to bring new technologies
> > like Mono into KDE. I think it would be a much more developer friendly
> > and also faster and cleaner way to build applications. And I think that
> > most of you - who know the concept behind Mono/.Net - agree with this.
> >
> > I know that there are QT bindings (Qyoto) for Mono/.Net, but I miss
> > bindings/libraries for the KDE core. There isn't even any page on the
> > KDE website which covers the topic of developing for KDE on Mono basis.
> >
> > Since I'm not the guru who has the know-how to create these libraries
> > and bindings, I just want to know if there is any approach on providing
> > such things or not.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Matthias
> >
> > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to
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