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

[Jan Holesovsky]

Hi Éric,

On Tuesday 29 November 2005 19:26, Éric Bischoff wrote:

> 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 ?

Right :-)

> 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.

Yes - that is why I wrote that I have no idea whether it is technically 
possible at all...  Maybe yes, maybe no, I do not know the code of either of 
the technology, unfortunately.  But I do think it would be worth evaluating.

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

I believe/hope that as long as there would be no change for the 'just KDE' or 
the 'just Gnome' programmers, the politics could be left aside ;-)

Bye,
Jan