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[Waldo Bastian]

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On Mon November 17 2003 21:15, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Monday 17 November 2003 12:06, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> ...
>
> > I think those ideas are spot on. The unified MIME associations didn't
> > make
 it in time for KDE 3.2, but I hope to get that implemented in the
> > next KDE release. Sharing a VFS framework will be somewhat more difficult
> > Since the functionality that KIO offers is quite complex it may not
> > really be feasible to fold that all in a common layer. What would be
> > feasible is to take a basic subset of functionality common to both VFS
> > and KIO and standardize an interface for that. The goal would then be to
> > give applications the possibility to fall-back to the other technology
> > with some degradation of service in case a specific scheme (e.g. http,
> > ftp, ldap) is not available via the native framework. That would also be
> > useful for third party applications that do not want to link against VFS
> > or KIO.
>
> 
> I think the major issue is that KDE can use C-libs, but Gnome can't use 
> C++-libs, so the things which might be unified, will always end up as 
> C-libraries -> i.e. no Qt/KDE, but probably Gtk/Gnome libraries.

I was more thinking about something like "kioexec": the functionality of KIO::
NetAccess but then in command line form so that we don't have all these 
linking issues. Perhaps extended a little with some basic "list" 
functionality.

Doesn't need to be high-tech.

Cheers,
Waldo
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