libexec (Re: "kde5" or "kf5" ?)

Kevin Krammer krammer at kde.org
Sat Feb 23 11:15:59 UTC 2013


On Saturday, 2013-02-23, Alexander Neundorf wrote:

> I do not know the actual code, I am speaking more in the role of a
> potential 3rd party user now, somebody who is working on a commercial
> custom Qt-only application, who would like to use some kf5 libs.
> make install, get the include dir and libs to link, and after that, it
> would be great if it would just work, independent from the rest of the
> system, i.e. I don't want to get other stuff accidentially, and I don't
> want other stuff to be influenced by me. E.g. I would not want to get the
> KDE file dialog when running in a KDE desktop, or Gnome icons in a Gnome
> desktop if I didn't build with that option explicitely (because it will
> make my application behave or look different than how I want it to be and
> how I tested and support it).

Actually I think right now those things need to be explicitly deactivated, 
e.g. Qt being told not to use the native file dialogs or icons being loaded 
from resources and not using QIcon::fromTheme().

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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