[Uml-devel] Wish for redesign

[Luis De la Parra Blum]

On Thursday 24 October 2002 20:39, Sebastian Stein wrote:
> Is it possible to write the app in 100% Qt and add only in another layer
> the KDE support? It would be great if I could compile the app on MS Win as
> well.

we've already had that discussion here...
The KDE-specific code is not too much and it would be possible to mantain the 
two versions (creating an extra layer on top of all the KDE classes that 
could be switched to QT or KDE at compile time)....but I dont know if this 
would be too expensive to mantain in the long run. 
I definetly want Umbrello to stay a KDE app.  If you (we) can get it to run in 
QT pure, then fine, but I am NOT willing to give up KDE integration.

Another thing is that--as far as I know-- the free QT version for Windows is 
the 2.x series, and I dont know if there was a QCanvas there (among other 
things).  Altough I think the prices of QT for comerciall versions are not 
too expensive if you want to develop a comerciall application and sell it, I 
will not be purchasing one license to make Umbrello run on Windows, and I 
doubt any of the developers here would... so, unless the 2.x series has 
everything we need for Umbrello, you can forget the idea right away.

The other problem I see, is that if we want to some time have the option to 
integrate Umbrello with KDevelop, we have to use KParts technology, and I 
dont think we have (at least I know I dont) the skills or time to port that 
beast to windows.

If the only thing you want to do is run Umbrello on windows, then I think the 
only thing you need is a X server for windows ( I think there are some free 
available) and cgywin(?).  I've never tryied, but I've heard the whole KDE 
can be got to run on windows...
If you do try to go this way, please keep me informed on how you did it.

luis.