On Sunday, 2011-04-17, Peter Nikolic wrote: > On Sunday 17 April 2011 17:56:53 Kevin Krammer wrote: > > On Thursday, 2011-04-14, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > > > No offense, but why at all should Qanta be part of a Desktop > > > Environment? > > > > Good question. Did anyone ever actually suggest that? > > > > > I like Quanta, but what makes it worthwile to integrate it tightly into > > > a DE? > > > > I don't think anyone would attempt that, especially not at this stage of > > development. > > > > > > Kopete is meant to be replaced by telepathy (which is in early > > > > development) > > > > > > So I suppose a KDE frontend will be developed by the KDE project. > > > Which has to be maintained again, same situation but different program. > > > > Not entirely. The shared infrastructure makes it a lot less effort to > > maintain the new program which is basically just user interface. > > > > Basically *the* way to go forward, sharing maintenance load and support > > of new protocols between various development communities. > > > > Cheers, > > Kevin > > Am i getting confused here or are you saying Quanta does not warrent > integration yet Kopete or it's replacement does if so that stinks big > time .. No, misunderstanding. What I am trying to say is that anyone would for whatever reason want to somehow bind their application to a certain workspace implementation, they would not do that before finishing their application in the first place. In the case of Telepathy there might be some workspace components *additionally* to a traditional application, e.g. to show a list of online contact even when no chat application is running. Quanta could of course also provide some additional workspace components, e.g. a session applet like the one for Kate or Konsole. But again like Kate or Konsole it will probably not depend on any workspace library itself, at least I can't see any benefit from doing that. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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