[Portland] PortlandVFSProposal

[Bryce Harrington]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:42:02PM +0100, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 January 2006 17:35, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> > On 1/10/06, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > > > You can't design custom filedialogs or have embedded
> > > > filemanagers like in K3B etc...
> > >
> > >  You can. I already posted a screenshot of Qt-only app (Scribus) using a
> > > KDE file dialog to this list once. Out-of-process file dialog. With
> > > customized widgets. Without modifying Scribus in any way.
> >
> > Even more. Sodipodi, a Gtk-based vector graphics application, on which
> > code Inkscape is/was based, can optionally use KDE's file open/save
> > dialog :)
> 
>  Unless this has changed that's different. AFAIK Sodipodi has a configure 
> option to enable linking to KDE libs and some #ifdef-ed code using the KDE 
> API.

That's correct; the kde dialog support was just a hack.  We ended up
ripping out all that code because it complicated maintenance way too
much.  It's definitely not an example of how to do multi-desktop
adaptation.

Bryce