[Qt-interest] odt support in qt

[Stephen Kelly]

Joshua Grauman wrote:

>>> Calligra libs depend on KDE libraries.
>>>
>>> Girish
>>
>>
>> Is the implication that it should therefore be avoided by Qt developers?
> 
> Not exactly, but who wants to add all of KDE as a dependency to an app for
> just one function. 

That's a difficult question to answer. It depends on what you think 'all of 
KDE' is and why you think you'd need all of it for odt features. I might 
need to blow away myths before even beginning to create an answer. It's not 
all roses of course, but it's almost certainly not as bad as you think, (or 
as bad as I thought when I started investigating).

> That's a lot of work, extra packaging, bloat to apps,
> etc. If the functionality is important enough, sure, or if you want to
> make a KDE app that uses lots of other KDE functions, but if you're just
> making a Qt app, the less dependencies the better... (especially for
> mobile apps). My $.02.

We are working on addressing these kinds of concerns.

http://community.kde.org/KDE_Core/Modularization

> 
> Josh