On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 10:34:32 Thiago Macieira wrote: > KIO needs some love, but I don't think we should take the BC opportunity to > open the floodgates again.
agreed, but i do think there is an opportunity here to try and separate the platform integration bits out of KIO. otherwise KIO almost becomes a non- starter for anything that isn't a desktop. we don't necessarily need to rework the API very much, just modularize the library so it is more reusable. my concern is that if we don't do this, we'll end up with a lot of applications marooned on the desktop or off the desktop due to have KIO (or not) or a lot of applications with multiple code paths for this functionality. (libplasma already has one such code path!) it might be tempting to say, "let's just find something else for non-desktop stuff" but we have so much code using KIO and it is a rather good API and library otherwise that it would be a damn shame to go that route. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
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