[review] [PyKDE] Eric3 and KFormDesigner

[Detlev Offenbach]

Hi,

thanks to Jim for replying. I couldn't have said it better. To summarize it, 
KFormdesigner won't go into eric3 because eric3 is meant to stay Qt (or PyQt) 
only. 

A couple of weeks ago someone suggested to use a KDE/Qt compatibility library 
(to be written) that would used KDE dialogs and stuff and falls back to Qt 
dialogs, if the KDE things cannot be imported. Any comments?

Detlev

Am Mittwoch, 25. August 2004 21:48 schrieb Jim Bublitz:
> On Wednesday 25 August 2004 06:14, R. Grefhorst wrote:
> > I'm new to this list, so be gentle ;-)
> >
> > I have a question to the Eric3 developers: Are you planning to
> >  incorporate the KFormDesigner (from the Kexi project) into Eric3? It
> >  seems like a good QtDesigner replacement and is more geared towards KDE
> >  than QtDesigner.
>
> Detlev is the eric3 developer - I do PyKDE - so I won't presume to speak
> for him, but I'll make a couple of comments.
>
> I hadn't looked at kexi before - it looks (from the web pages anyway) like
> a very good and necessary project. Similarly, KFormDesigner looks like a
> good idea for KDE developers.
>
> It's probably a little hard to see the overall scope of the projects that
> converge on this mailing list. A Venn diagram would be nice, but is a
> little hard to do in email.  PyKDE is obviously very closely tied to KDE
> itself. PyQt overlaps with KDE, but has a large non-KDE Linux and Windows
> user base as well. eric3 overlaps with KDE, the non-KDE and Windows users,
> and could have an even larger base of Python users who just want a good IDE
> without coding for PyQt or PyKDE.
>
> So -- a KDE specific UI builder probably doesn't fit for all of eric3's
> user base.
>
> The other problem is PyQt provides pyuic as a backend for generating Python
> from QtDesigner output, and PyKDE wraps that with pykdeuic. Is there
> already a way to generate Python from KFormDesigner and are the kexi
> developers integrating Python in other ways?
>
> Jim
>
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