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

[nf2]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:14 AM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Christoph Feck wrote:
>> On Wednesday 04 November 2009 00:23:04 nf2 wrote:
>> > Qt in particular, because it lacks an async file-IO API.
>>
>> QIODevice (the class which QFile inherits from) is asynchronous,
>> at least API-wise.

I also meant things like QDir. And atomic operations in QFile (like
QFile::exists()).

> Qt-only apps!? I don't think this is what this discussion was about,
> since Qt-only apps represent only a little piece of a unified VFS dream.
>

Well, but a tough one...

* KDE apps link KIO.

* Gtk+ apps will naturally migrate to GIO (as it's always there).

* But Qt-only apps?

And i do believe Qt is quite important for getting more apps written
for the FOSS desktop. As it's portability is very attractive.


Norbert