Qt4addons module?

[Eva Brucherseifer]

Am Mittwoch, 25. Mai 2005 23:42 schrieb Brad Hards:
> On Thu, 26 May 2005 06:01 am, David Faure wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 May 2005 19:43, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > Good idea I'd say.
> > > KStringHandler, KSqueezedTextLabel, KColor, KLed come instantly to my
> > > mind and there are probably many others too.
> >
> > KCmdLineArgs would be useful too. And KApplication. And KLibLoader. And
> > .... wait.... Why should we create a sub-KDE as part of KDE, when you can
> > have it all instead?
>
> That isn't quite what I meant.
>
> I wasn't thinking about a single library that has only a Qt dependency
> (which would probably end up being kdecore, all over again). I was thinking
> more about a single module containing several stand-alone parts, which are
> already compiled to separate .so (as plugins), and which could potentially
> be useful independent of KDE, and independent of each other.

This would be very useful to Qt coders. Many of them don't want to link to all 
of KDE, but would use (and very likely also contribute to) single parts. IMHO 
we also should advertise more what we have.

Greetings,
eva

>
> > With Qt3 there would have been a reason: to gain Windows portability. But
> > with Qt4 this reason disappears. So I don't see the point in a "qt-only
> > kdelibs" (I don't even know how to name it... kdelibs *is* qt only in the
> > first place...)
>
> I'm thinking more about things like database handlers, image formats,
> codecs, rather than about another general support library.
>
> Brad

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