Re: From kdelibs4 to KDE frameworks... how to make KDE more cross platform...

2012-02-13 Thread Stephen Kelly
Alexander Neundorf wrote: > To make it short, now that we are going towards KDE frameworks, we should > make sure that if there is something we can do to improve our situation on > non KDE desktops, especially on non-UNIX, we should do that now or at > least make sure that necessary changes can be

Re: From kdelibs4 to KDE frameworks... how to make KDE more cross platform...

2012-02-13 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday, February 11, 2012 20:00:01 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > It is cool to be able to replace the Windows shell... but does it make sense fwiw, it's always been my opinion that it does not make sense to do this. it doesn't solve a real problem on the windows platform, and as such does not

Re: From kdelibs4 to KDE frameworks... how to make KDE more cross platform...

2012-02-13 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Andre Heinecke wrote: > The perception that dbus is a problem on Windows is outdated. Dbus was a > huge > problem on windows but currently the situation is pretty good, we reall > have > no known issues with it. We can run multiple instances with different > appli

Re: From kdelibs4 to KDE frameworks... how to make KDE more cross platform...

2012-02-13 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > Pau had the idea to write a fake libdbus for Windows, which internally > doesn't > talk to a dbus daemon, but which uses the Windows messaging service. > On Linux DBUS is no problem. On Mac ? I don't know. Probably better than > under

Re: From kdelibs4 to KDE frameworks... how to make KDE more cross platform...

2012-02-13 Thread David Faure
On Saturday 11 February 2012 20:00:01 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > kded... for what things is this needed when running only a single > application ? The main reason currently is "so that it watches desktop files and keeps ksycoca up-to-date". The other uses of KDED are on-demand (kssl, timezones

Re: From kdelibs4 to KDE frameworks... how to make KDE more cross platform...

2012-02-13 Thread Andre Heinecke
Hi, Am Samstag, 11. Februar 2012, 20:00:01 schrieb Alexander Neundorf: > Hi, > While there are Windows and also OSX builds of KDE4, they are not really > successful. > I mean, it's not like everybody is running amarok today under Windows, or > kate, or kdevelop, or digikam, kmail, etc. > Some appli