KDE File Chooser in GTK apps on Kubuntu

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi all,

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Gordon Schulz <gordon.schulz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:20, Art Alexion <art.alexion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > Could someone enlighten me why anyone developing for KDE and thus using
>> > QT and kdelibs should be interested in and spending time on deploying
>> > 'hacks' for GTK apps to use foreign file selectors?
>>
>> Because some apps do not have a fully functional KDE equivalent.  Firefox and
>> OpenOffice come to mind.*  While the core KDE team may have no interest in
>> this, there is usually someone with development talent who does.
> Art, as I pointed out in this thread already - I do agree. Give me a
> QT'd Firefox and I'll be all over it. Actually I only replied to your op
> in the first place since it sounded as if you were expecting the core
> KDE team to pick this up and blaming them for not doing so.

Actually, this is not something to ask in the distros or DE, but
upstream where the developers sit. Good news for Firefox: the Mozilla
Foundation is working on a Qt GUI, check out here:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080818-nokia-helps-port-firefox-to-qt.html

Greets

Myriam
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