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

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 04 November 2009, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 November 2009, nf2 wrote:
> > * But Qt-only apps?
> >
> > And i do believe Qt is quite important for getting more apps written
> > for the FOSS desktop. As its portability is very attractive.
>
> OK, that's a good point. However QFile/QDir is not the answer IMHO.
> Qt has a nice API for async networking requests already:
> QNetworkAccessManager (for which we have a KIO backend; the qt-kde platform
> plugin (cf the thread from Olivier) could even use that when kdelibs is
> around).
> But for file dialogs, it misses directory listing, and stat, at least.

I think QAbstractFileEngine comes quite close, you can use to to plug 
in "virtual" filesystems based on URLs into Qt apps, including the file 
dialog.

Alex