Re: why kdelibs?

On Thursday 28 October 2010 21:14:04 Vivek Prakash wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Chani <[email protected]> wrote:
> > When I was at DevDays, I noticed that while people were very enthusiastic
> > about Qt, I was getting a sort of "qt is all you need" vibe at times - a
> > fine
> > sentiment for promoting qt, but then, what about kdelibs?
> > 
> > And then I realized: what *about* kdelibs? I had no idea how to tell
> > anyone why they should use the kde platform, what advantages it would
> > bring. Hell, at
> > this point I'm not even sure what's *in* kdelibs, or what the KDE
> > Platform is.
> > 
> > After a quick skim of community.kde.org, I'm just as lost.
> > 
> > So I ask you: Why kdelibs? Why the KDE Platform? I *know* that we have
> > all kinds of awesome in there, but what is it and why should people use
> > it?
> 
> I thought advantage of KDE was all the neat infrastructure it offered: KIO,
> phonon, nepomuk, akonadi, etc.  Along the lines of
> http://kde.org/developerplatform/ .
> 
> Disclaimer - I'm not a programmer.  So maybe I'm completely off.

No, you're not, that's exactly what it is all about. Basically, what would be 
needed is for someone to start prodding in the brain of someone like David 
Faure and get out a series of articles about the cool stuff in KDElibs.

The recent work on splitting up KDE libs in smaller pieces, which could be, 
separately, interesting as Qt addons, would be very much worth mentioning 
there.

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> > 
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