Commit notifications for specs

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 19:06 +0200, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> > > by the way: GIO implements various fd.o specifications - the
> > > thumbnailing specification, the trash spec, the shared mime info spec,
> > > etc. exactly like KIO does.
> >
> > KIO and GIO could have shared plugins ("slaves", in KIO slang) but
> > they do not. That would have been very useful.
>
> how would have this been even possible? GIO backends are implemented as
> GObject using the GModule API, and they are even out of tree from the
> GIO main library (see the gvfs module inside GNOME's SVN).

someone's already done it ;)

KIO slaves run out-of-process and have no inherent event loop of their own. 
they just need to implement the proper IPC (d-bus) interface to communicate 
and register with the system configuration (a .desktop file).

even if there was a Qt event loop, however, Qt4 builds with the glib event 
loop if glib is available on the system. this allows us to run glib based 
plugins, etc within a Qt (and by extension, KDE) based application. the 
reverse should also be true, at least as far as the event loop part goes.

this is not theory, either, i've seen gtk+ based plugins running in a Qt app 
due to using the glib event loop as a common basis.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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