Swfdec/Konqi integration

[Eva Brucherseifer]

Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2007 schrieb Mike Melanson:
> George Staikos wrote:
> >>>   Plugins need to stop assuming that Linux == Gtk.
> >>
> >> What should they assume instead?
> >
> >    When you assume you make an .....
>
> To be serious about this, per my understanding, plugin authors are
> supposed to be able to use XEmbed to write their stuff using one toolkit
> and have it run neatly embedded in another app, even if that other app
> is using another toolkit.

With software being crossplatform you can't assume you have xembed available. 
KDE is heading towards mac, windows, embedded - all without X.
In contrast to that gtk and Qt are both much better, because they actually 
support those platform, while Qt's support is probably the best.

Cheers,
eva

>
> That's the idealized view, anyway. Per my reading of the XEmbed spec,
> all the hard work happens at the toolkit level. GTK and Qt have already
> implemented XEmbed. Konqueror should be able to leverage QXEmbed to
> embed these newer plugins.
>
> Then we can talk about windowless plugins...



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