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Re: Kits

 

I think the issue is that the elementary developers don't have the capacity
right now to take on something of that magnitude.
On Apr 25, 2013 6:54 AM, "ecir hana" <ecir.hana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I found about elementary few days ago and I like it a lot. Please, I would
> like to ask about your opinion or even make a feature request about "kits".
>
> A kit provides some programatic functionality but as opposed to a library,
> it is tightly integrated with the OS. I see that there are already a few
> kits listed in "Technology" section of the site. I'm asking about even more
> and more diverse kits.
>
> For example in Cocoa there is PDFKit which can be use to display a PDF in
> an application with just two lines of code. Or SceneKit which makes
> displaying 3D content very simple. Or Qt has QGraphicsScene which makes it
> easy to display and manipulate graphics. Or Mozilla XUL provides means for
> parsing RSS/Atom.
>
> The idea is that by providing many kits it would be easier to develop
> applications for elementary.
>
> Thanks for the feedback!
>
> Ecir Hana
>
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