[Kde-java] Packaging an application

[George Russell]

> I like the line 'All below this line is obsolete' refering to the previous
> Swing version. How do you think the code compares?

Swing has the advantage of ample documentation and GUI layout tools!
And I've just sacrificed portability completely. Although, I will experiment 
with a Cocoa version on MacOS X using the same backend.

The use of KHTML makes an interface much easier. The ability to call konqueror 
et al to do the fetching, displaying of etexts removes most of the code 
previously that was buggy and / or hard to do. The use of KDE widgets makes 
it possible to integrate into the desktop - picking up things like colours.

The code is far shorter than the swing version so far - but it is not 
comparable in terms of features yet.

Of course, the Swing versions were left in a rather broken state, hence a kde 
rewrite. Which likely will be shorter and simpler since using khtmlpart is 
simpler than similar swing compomnents.

More work to do!

George Russell
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