[Open Office] Generic desktop adapter (proposal & prototype)

[Éric Bischoff]

Le Mardi 29 Novembre 2005 18:14, Jan Holesovsky a écrit :
> I think that the interesting thing here would be doing it vice-versa.  For
> example, merge the functionality of gnome-vfs and KIO so that the current
> gnome-vfs or KIO would be just wrappers for the 'merged VFS'.  This would
> make the maintainance easier - two teams would be interested in fixing
> bugs ;-) -, the really desktop independent applications could use the
> 'merged VFS' directly, and the KDE/Gnome application programmers would
> still have the API they are used to.  But no idea whether it is technically
> possible at all ;-)
>
> What do you think, would you be interested in looking into this?

Kendy,

Correct me if I am wrong, but what you propose is nothing less than merging 
the kio and the vfs ?

If true : wow. While this seems highly desirable, this might be a programmer's 
nightmare. For example, KDE uses Qt's signals and slots to do asynchronous 
I/O while Gnome uses callbacks (if I am not wrong). And there is a lot, lot 
of existing code.

That would be an exciting project, but much ahead of us OpenOffice.org 
developpers (*). And highly "political", of course.


(*) I am also a KDE developper, but only of two small apps.

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