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

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Terça-feira 3. Novembro 2009, às 17.18.13, David Faure escreveu:
> 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.
> And for file management, it misses mkdir, del, copying and moving files.
> But I'm really afraid that saying this will result in a NIH "QIO" framework
>  in  Qt. Noooo ;-)

That's correct.

The proper place for that is QNetworkAccessManager. I'd love to see a QtVFS 
framework, but I'm loathe to add it because we have a very nice one in KIO 
already.

Unfortunately, KIO is also a very outdated API. It works, but it's from KDE 2 
times. It needs a major API review. My efforts to clean it up leading to KDE 4 
were only partially successful.

Introducing D-Bus in ioslaves, for example, would be close to impossible. But 
having abstracted away the connection, we could replace the QDataStream-based 
communication with something else, thus sharing kioslaves with other, non-Qt 
applications.

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