Integration at Akademy
An important topic at Akademy is modularisation and integration. It has been the main topic of one talk but you will find it comes up in many others. It is clearly on the minds of many hackers here.
One of the talks on Saturday morning was about integration. As it was given by Inge Wallin it quickly started to resemble a Marble talk - fans of that application must be having a blast, as there's also a 'real' talk about Marble by Patrick Spendrin. Marble was used by Inge to show one of the longtime strengths of KDE - integration. We have always had technologies like KIO which allows network transparent file access and the KParts framework which makes it incredibly easy to embed applications in other applications - think about what Konqueror does, showing pictures using Gwenview. In KDE 4 many new technologies were introduced, some, like the ones just mentioned, low-level like Solid (hardware information) and Phonon (audio & video) but also more complex. Marble is a shining example here - it is a full blown virtual earth application. But you can integrate it on several levels in any other application you want and customise it with powerful additional visualisations. Take KOffice - yes, Marble can integrate in KOffice. You can have a document, be it a spreadsheet, presentation or text document, and have a real, interactive map in there. This clearly shows the power of integration - map applications aren't new, neither are Office suites. But as far as we know nobody has combined these before outside of KDE.
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