KWIG Qt->Gtk porting layer and merging main loops.
nf
nf2 at scheinwelt.at
Wed Oct 27 19:57:21 EEST 2004
Sorry to bug you again, but i can't get this out of my mind:
If we had a common main loop for both QT and GTK: Would it then be
possible to link libraries from both frameworks together (in-process)?
For instance writing a KIO wrapper for gnome-vfs...
I have seen that Ken Deeter proposed a "freedesktop threading and
signal/slot library" in the discussion about a "common VFS" last year.
http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2003-September/002437.html
Is it really necessary to unify threads&signal&slot-handling, or would
it suffice to have a common main loop, alternating between QT and Glib
signal processing?
The reason why i bring up this question is that i read about the
recently released "Gtk-Webcore"-project to port KHTML to GTK+. I think
it implements QT-Signals on top of the Glib event loop.
KWIQ Qt adaptation layer: http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/
I'm just curious. Don't you think that such a "common main loop" would
help to avoid lots of code duplication and improve (free)desktop
interoperability? Maybe a little expert discussion could inspire someone
to play with this...
Regards,
Norbert
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