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Re: Tenor KIO-slave?
by Scott Wheeler on Thursday 14/Apr/2005, @01:41
Well, the article is mostly speculative. I'm fundamentally an application developer (that ends up spending more than half of my time on framework components, so...) so when I explained this stuff to Kurt at one point I mostly talked in terms of what people will be able to do with this stuff.

In other words the things that Kurt mentions are the things that I've designed towards; concrete use cases, if you will. But the user visible things will come as applications start to use the framework and new tools are written to take advantage of it. I'll probably write a basic search tool to show off the possibilities and then let the interface guys have fun with it. :-)

Basically Tenor makes it easy to write a "Spotlight on steroids" -- like libkio and KHTML make it easy to throw together a basic webbrowser, but that's not what Tenor itself is.

Part of the problem with explaining some of the stuff is that it's sometimes hard to imagine how something will work when there's nothing popular to really compare it to. Most of the stuff that people think of is a subset of what Tenor makes possible.
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