Donald Straney wrote: >> You've just described libdapi, the project you're criticising. > >Thanks for correcting me, I guess I was misinformed about that. I had >thought it was an abstraction layer on top of the KDE and GNOME >libraries instead of a project to standardize the APIs and get rid of >desktop-specific calls (widget toolkits excluded, of course).
No, you were right in the first place: it's an abstraction layer on top of the existing APIs. There's no plan to standardise on a single library, mostly because it's chicken-and-the-egg problem: how can you provide the services using the abstract library that uses them? We discussed that among KDE developers: should the KDE libraries use XDG calls to execute certain actions? I don't think we reached a consensus. Some argue on respecting any other desktop's preferences when KDE applications are run on them; others argue that running KDE applications should bring along the best we can provide, in spite of a common denominator found. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358
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