Re: [long] Handle Graphics and visualisation applications in Octave.

(Quick note: I have been away for the last couple of months, but I will resume
KV development as soon as I have set up the PC again.)

Quoting Melvin Hadasht <[email protected]>:
> It seems to me that KV depends on a desktop environment. I do not use nor
> Gnome nor KDE. Those are too large and slow on my system. I hope desktop 
> dependency won't be necessary in KV in the future (I seem to recall that it
> was removed, but I don't see it notified on the web site).

The structure of KV is such that GUI front end uses the main KV library (which
contains all the relevant classes). Hence, anyone will be free to develop their
own frontend (which basically consists of a main window class, a View class, and
any object browser type GUI windows desired). So I hope one day that the KV
library code will be ready to support multiple desktop types. The only problem
is that the library currently uses QT's XML implementation, but this could
easily be overcome by dropping in a replacement.

.............

May I suggest that I write next week/the week after the initial Octave code for
supporting the plugin style idea? I may need a little help working out various
internal bits of Octave, but I do have a firm idea of how the Octave end should
be written.

Nic