hi.. > tongue.in(cheek); > > So then just about any modern object-oriented or component based > application should also be in the UNIX way. Everything from our dear > blackbox all the way past konqi and mozilla through to Microsoft > Office. :D
not at all... konqueror is just a GUI within which all the GUI, I/O and various other extensions in KDE (which are becoming quite numerous and varied) can come together visually in accordance with the user's desire at that moment. konqi contains very little functionality in and of itself. even the menus and toolbars are extended/modified by the loaded parts. in turn all these parts can be used by any other KDE app, such as the html, dir tree, console, finder, text viewer, koffice, cervisia, <INSERT PART HERE> parts and the IOSlaves. konqueror : kparts :: bash : command line apps this is particularly different when compared with the state of things on MS Windows or MacOS. simply having a component model does not guarentee interoperability between components in an ad hoc manner as the UNIX CLI does. GNOME's bonobo + gnomevfs will give similar benefits to the GNOME desktop. -- Aaron Seigo -- Aaron Seigo
