Kill KIO (was: Repositioning the KDE brand)

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Tue Jul 14 10:15:52 BST 2009


On Tuesday 14 July 2009, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > Qt-only programs always makes me wonder what is wrong with the KDE libs,
> > as these are supposed to help for better programs.
>
> One of the main hurdles on Windows is DBus. Then there's the awful lot
> of KDE libraries you need to redistribute: most of what you distribute
> are KDE libraries and its dependencies, and only a small part is your
> actual application.

It's the same on OSX. On OSX you don't want dbus (or knotify or that daemon 
that never seems to run but makes sure the file dialogs work, I've forgotten 
the name of that atm)

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