On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:13:16AM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > KDE cares in so far as they accept patches and would welcome a developer > that targets OpenBSD. I know because I've talked to some of them on IRC. > > There's however no effort to do it themselves or even set up a testbox > to make sure all their developers would notice that their applications > don't work on !Linux.
Well, most of their stuff does work on... windows these days. How non-portable is that ? Seriously, the issues about hal and policykit only impact you if you want kde as a full desktop with all sysadmin. For most of us, who actually only care about kde apps, such as digikam, amarok or konqueror, that's not such a big issue. The main issue is probably that KDE is C++, and modern and nice C++ at that. In most cases, making things work with another OS is just a question of figuring out the right API. Of course, it makes it completely impossible to hack on KDE if you're in the "C++ is crap, everything that matters should be written in C" mentality. (in fact, KDE is probably the biggest example of readable C++ code I give to people. Doesn't hurt that it follows on the steps of Qt, which is itself awesome). So there. Even among OpenBSD porters, there are just a few of us who do grok enough C++ to hack on kde or qt. That probably explains a lot. The fact that it's incredibly more efficient than that java crap won't stop newcomers from learning java instead of C++, though.
