Re: KImageMapEditor, dock widgets and Qt4...

Le Fri 18 19:54, Eric Laffoon a écrit :
> Hi Eric,
> welcome to the insanity. ;-) Most of KDE development is very rational, but
> you hit the one spot that is frustrating. I will do my best to offer a
> quick explanation. The KDock classes for KDE3 were sort of a mess. So
> everybody set out to rewrite what they wanted. The Kate guys have a simple
> small library that suits their needs and are adamant about not adding
> anything to it to serve anyone else because they want to make sure it's not
> a mess... (Insert mildly paranoid cautious excuse here) The KDevelop guys
> set about writing one that would do everything which could be a standard
> library. Interestingly last year at aKademy they were close in concept and
> file size, but the Kate KMDI/docking worked and the KDevelop one, being
> more ambitious, was buggy. We tried to broker a standard library for KDE
> out of it but there was no reconciling the two perspectives. Since we will
> be using the KDevelop framework for Quanta and probably Kommander it will
> be accessed in most usage scenarios, and it should do everything you need.
> That would be my
> recommendation.

As I answered to Andras, QDockWidgets are now functional enough for my needs. 
They are sufficient for standalone KIME.
And, in KPart scope, they will be easily integrated in KDevelop framework as 
it is based on QDockWidget too.

Eric