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Looking forward to KDE 4Looking forward to KDE 4Posted May 4, 2006 10:50 UTC (Thu) by tao (subscriber, #17563)In reply to: Looking forward to KDE 4 by micampe Parent article: Looking forward to KDE 4
The last few months there's been announcements on the HAL mailinglist about ports to both Solaris and FreeBSD. I'd say this is just another sad case of NIH.
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NIH? Posted May 4, 2006 11:07 UTC (Thu) by shane (subscriber, #3335) [Link] I don't understand this comment. Do you mean that HAL is another case ofNIH? Or that KDE wanting to support multiple underlying interfaces to system hardware is NIH? Maybe you could explain further?
Looking forward to KDE 4 Posted May 4, 2006 13:43 UTC (Thu) by nhasan (guest, #1699) [Link] Do you really know what you are talking about?
Looking forward to KDE 4 Posted May 4, 2006 20:10 UTC (Thu) by speedster1 (subscriber, #8143) [Link] I think tao meant KDE was intending to replace HAL partly because it was "not invented here", rather than buying into the stated "HAL is not cross-platform" excuse. On the other hand, HAL won't be cross-platform enough to make the jump to completely alien platforms like Windows, so if Windows support is a big goal for KDE they do need something beyond just HAL.
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