KDE is not an OS platform... (And neither is Gnome)

[Martin Sandsmark]

On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 08:12:34PM +0100, nf2 wrote:
> And how do you want to solve the problem for KDE apps on Gnome and GTK
> apps on KDE? How do you want to get this extra layer into KIO and GIO?

Why can't they just hand over the RFC-compliant URLs to eachother? It's the
easiest, but with some downsides (having to type in the password again, for
example. Though this could be worked around by having a common auth storage). :-)

> And if you really want to be able to switch the entire VFS
> implementation, there might as well be an "easier" way to do that: The
> reverse bridge. Just write a KIO plugin for GIO. As GIO loads the VFS
> implementation as a module, this doesn't look like a completely
> impossible thing (but not a walk in the park, i'm afraid).

If one is already taking on such a huge tasks, why not try to design a common
interface?

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Martin Sandsmark