Re: Opinion summary.

On Sunday, 2003-02-16, 19:12, CET, Axel Simon wrote:
> [...]

> > Furthermore, in section 2 (objectives) you talk about the platforms "the
> > community is interested in". Does this mean that this covers all platforms
> > someone from the community is interested in or that it covers only those
> > platforms most people of the community are interested in. If the former is
> > the case, I would like to see KDE added.
>
> But I thought Qt represents KDE in terms of the user interface?! Or is this
> relation like Gtk-GNOME where GNOME provides more advanced widgets?

KDE extends Qt in many ways and the user interface of a KDE application will 
in most cases differ from the one of a pure Qt application. It's not only 
that you have some more advanced widgets in KDE. The KDE UI stuff uses a lot 
of certain KDE core functionality. For example, file open dialogs use the 
file type and URI scheme handling of KDE.

I want to say something concerning the URI scheme handling. In file open 
dialogs I can specify arbitrary URIs, not only file paths. For example, if I 
choose "open file" in KWrite, I can specify a FTP URI pointing to a text 
file. The text file is fetched via FTP and every click on the "save" button 
puts the current text via FTP to the server, so that I can work with remote 
files exactly like with local files. I think this is really cool!!

In my opinion, it is very desireable to have this functionality available via 
the common Haskell GUI API. The GUI API would have to provide an abstract 
interface to reading and writing data which in the case of KDE would not 
necessarily be reading from and writing to files.

Wolfgang