Re: Food for thought: Why (and how) should KDE and Gnome unite?

[Christian Esken <esken kde org>]

On Fre, 08 Jan 1999 Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
>On 23 Dec 1998, Tero Pulkkinen wrote:
>[snip]
>> 1) Set of libraries must be introduced that are independent of the
>>    other Gnome or KDE things, especially widget sets. These libraries
>>    must have corba interface, so that our existing common ground (IIOP)
>>    can be utilized -- access outside corba interfaces to these libraries
>>    is banned.
>
>You're not asking much, are you? ;) Luckily, Torben also believes in the
>joys of toolkit independence, so a lot of his new CORBA-intensive code
>(kom, op, kfmIII and a lot of the koffice stuff)  uses STL only (no Qt
>containers).
>
>I'm not sure about much else, though. STL is still a pain on many

On the other hand, STL is now standard. C++ compiler vendors had
enough time to adopt their compilers, IMO. 

>platforms where the Qt containers work just fine, so the incentive to
>switch everything to STL is still quite low. But that could change.

For me it's already changing. The new KDE Media-Server architecture
does use STL only. One can put a layer on top, to allow for a better
KDE or Gnome integration.

  Christian

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