Re: GNOME & KOM/OP

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

> Another way would be - if there are too wide gaps, to restart from scratch,
> while ensuring that reasonable bindings to Qt & KDE exist from the
> beginning. Then there should be active cooperation, to ensure, that
> the KOffice developers will actually switch to the GNU Object Model
> as soon as possible.

Our Component model will be based on CORBA, which means you will be
able to use it from practically any language you want (which is one of
the goals of GNOME).  The component model does not require Gtk or any
other graphical toolkit. 

The libraries for the Component model will be released under the terms
of the GNU LGPL to allow linking with more restrictive licenses (which
includes the Qt license) so it will be possible to have proprietary
components talking to free components. 

I talked to Torben at the Kongress about this and he did not seem very
interested in redoing OpenParts/KOM with something different, as it is
part of his master's thesis.

Miguel.