From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Masatake YAMATO Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: porting GNU Emacs to kde (?) Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:39:41 +0900 (JST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040314.143941.226780709.jet@gyve.org> References: <877jxr1iqj.fsf@isis.myth> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079245082 21329 80.91.224.253 (14 Mar 2004 06:18:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 06:18:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 14 07:17:52 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2Owa-0005Wm-00 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 07:17:52 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2Owa-0006nD-00 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 07:17:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B2Op6-0000sI-Bp for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 01:10:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2OMN-0005Bw-Ew for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:40:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2OLq-00050E-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:40:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [210.130.136.40] (helo=r-maa.spacetown.ne.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B2OLq-0004zj-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:39:54 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (h219-110-076-188.catv01.itscom.jp [219.110.76.188]) by r-maa.spacetown.ne.jp (8.11.6) with ESMTP id i2E5dgr06482; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:39:43 +0900 (JST) Original-To: jgeorgal@uoc.gr In-Reply-To: <877jxr1iqj.fsf@isis.myth> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.0.62 on Emacs 21.3.50 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20443 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20443 > I was thinking of trying to port GNU Emacs to the KDE[1] environment > in the near future. The main incentive for this decision, is my > desire to start using kdevelop[2] as my IDE (which is impossible > without Emacs ;-)). This is possible in KDE (and kdevelop in specific) > through the KPart[3] interface. This roughly means that Emacs should > become a shared object and export some functionality that implements a > well defined Editor interface. This way, Emacs can be used throughout > the KDE environment WHEREVER an editor is needed[4]. How about d-bus[1]? I think it would be gnome<->kde neutral way. Once emacs side d-bus interface is completed, you can do what you want in elisp. I guess drag-and-drop support code added to emacs recently is good place to start. [1] http://dbus.freedesktop.org/ Masatake YAMATO