[rekonq] How many KDE Platform dependencies does Rekonq have?

[andrea diamantini]

I don't think it's possible to get rid of our KDE dependencies. All of them
provide us a great bunch of features against their Qt counterparts.
So, "removing KDE" is not an option. Considering that this means
reimplementing all our peculiar parts. Let's do some exampes:

xmlgui & ktoolbar --> the GUI and the toolbars configurability
kwallet --> password management
KIO & kcookiejar --> cookies (In the Qt 4.5.x release, the QNetworkCookieJar
was not "enough" for a decent browser. Don't know about its state now)
KIO --> file download management
KUriFilter --> url resolution && webshortcuts
KCM --> setting dialogs
KBookmarks --> bookmarks management
KIO & KDirLister --> file && ftp protocols
KParts --> file handling (eg, pdf, video, etc)
etc..

The things listed will not work with the s/K/Q sostitution. They have to be
reimplemented from scratch. Some of them (eg: xmlgui, KCM) need big changes
to let the 2 versions (Qt & KDE based) work together.
That said, if someone comes here saying: "we can port in the platform X, the
features A, B, C from kdelibs, but porting the feature D, E will cost us too
much. Please get rid of them or let them optional" beh, we can talk about..

Regards,

2010/8/26 Markus Slopianka <markus.s at kdemail.net>

> I fully agree that Rekonq should concentrate on the KDE Platform and
> Desktop first and
> then Plasma Netbook.
> But after that reducing dependencies may be beneficial for Plasma Mobile
> (if rekonq is
> ever targeting that at all but since the GUI is already flexible, I think
> it'd make
> sense).
>
>
> On Thursday 26 August 2010 16:29:23 benjamin.poulain at nokia.com wrote:
> > On Aug 26, 2010, at 4:16 PM, ext Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > > I just had the idea that Rekonq (1.0?) with no/minimized KDE Platform
> > > dependencies could be proposed to MeeGo Netbook as default browser
> > > instead of current Google Chrome.
> >
> > I don't think it is a good idea in the short term. We are just starting
> to
> > work on Netbook, while Google already made improvements. There are cases
> > where QtWebKit is faster than Chrome on Desktop, those are generally
> > slower on Atom.
> >
> > Still, I think the question is interesting. How hard do you think it
> would
> > be to have a version of Rekonq without dependency on KDE?
> >
> > cheers,
> > Benjamin
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