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

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> 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.

Except that QNetworkAccessManager is asynchronous while QAbstractFileEngine is 
synchronous.

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org).