On Fri, 4 May 2001, Pierre Fortin wrote:
> > 2. The Kompany releases a very nice set of Qt/Kde python bindings which
> > would make a great addition (the pygnome bindings are already in). Python
> > is a great language for prototyping/RAD/glue with C (and I've been a Perl
> > fan for years!). Having a more polished python setup "out of the box" would
> > be an asset for Mandrake, IMHO. See
> > http://www.thekompany.com/projects/pykde/?dhtml_ok=1 for details.
>
> I too am looking forward to using PyKDE; except for one "minor" point:
>
> "There is no support for KDE v2.x yet."
Good point. I'm only starting to use python and have only played with the
"bare" qt bindings tutorials so far. I guess I'll settle for that in the
meantime, and hopefully PyKDE will be up to KDE2 soon. But having good
support for phython in Mandrake can only help this happen sooner rather
than later: more potential users/debuggers/developers for python.
I'm actually curious about the overhead of a "full" kde application vs. a
"bare" qt one. If I'm writing some small app which is fairly self-contained
and doesn't need access to any of the base kde libraries and services,
does it make sense to just use Qt to improve memory/speed? This can be an
issue if one is writing simple GUI frontends that control command-line
backends and wants the whole thing to start up quick and light.
Fernando.
