KaXul and Uxul: XUL for the KDE Linux Desktop Upcoming

Hi,

  George Staikos writes in the KaXul readme notes:

  KaXul is a tool for parsing XUL and converting it to
something that can be displayed natively in KDE.

  Uxul is a tool to take a XUL file, run it through
KaXul, and execute it directly with Qt and KDE
subsystems.

  George also answers questions about the
state-of-the-XUL-union on KDE and takes XUL critics
head-on. Here's the transcript:

Q: What works?

A: As of today, this can read in some XUL files and
generate very basic .ui files which can be viewed with
kuiviewer.


Q: What needs to be done?

A: Finish the converter for XUL files, add support for
JS binding, add CSS parsing (from KHTML ideally), turn
it into a library that can take a .xul file and run
it.


Q: XUL sucks.

A: Doesn't matter what you think; we're going to need
it in Konqueror eventually. Might as well start
supporting this stuff earlier.


Q: How do I test it?

A: Build the xul2ui test app, then find some .xul
files, download them and run them through it.  Run
kuiviewer on the resulting .ui file to see how well it
worked.


Q: Can I work on it?

A: Yes, if you know how to code and can understand
XML, XUL and .ui files.  Please email George -first-
if you want to change any structure around.  Do NOT
use any KDE libraries yet.  This code is to remain
Qt-only as long as possible.


Q: How do you pronounce that?

A: I call it "casual" (kaxul), and "usual" (uxul).


Let's welcome KDE to the XUL world and cheer on George
Staikos for his can-do attitude. 

Full story @
http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdenonbeta/kaxul

- Gerald

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