On Monday 28 of April 2014 12:32:50 Anton Aylward wrote:
The wrappers around what amounts to a "system" (3) call are all well documented. In addition, the code already exists in KDE to do that with those other external programs I mentioned.
Are you saying that the KDE coders are so inept that they had to code each of those instances separately? That they never factored the code to a common routine?
Sorry, i fail to grasp what you said above has anything to do with library choices. What instances? You can off course use any image viewer on Plasma Workspace, but only with Gwenview e.g. you can see images embedded in Konqueror. Also, you can use whatever browser you like, but only with those that use KDELibs, you'll have integrated download Plasma progress bar, just to name a few examples. Finally, you can not use mentioned image viewer, or browser, you can remove them, but the libs will be there. Same goes with Baloo. Difference - one of these hit the soft spot or something. Cheers, Hrvoje