Re: Embedding Emacs in other apps

[Jan Djärv]

Tassilo Horn skrev 2010-04-28 20.06:

> I wanted to investigate how much effort it would be to be able to use
> emacs in all places in KDE where its "text editor kpart" is used.
> Therefore, emacs (or an emacs frame) would need to implement this kpart
> interface.  Currently, I don't know if and how that relates to XEmbed.
> Possibly, it is a completely different approach.

I guess you can write a wrapper around XEmbed that implements that kpart 
interface.

> When googling for emacs kpart, I found some few threads on
> [x]emacs-devel and kde lists, where people were interested in
> implementing such a emacs kpart.  Unfortunately, except comments like
> "seems possible" the projects never seemed to get actually tackled.
>
> I don't have much experiences with C/C++, and also my knowledge of
> KDE/Emacs internals is nearby zero.  But maybe that would be a good
> topic for a summer of code project mentored by an emacs as well as a KDE
> dev.  I think I remember that Chong's and Stefan's plans for emacs 24
> also include destop integration as a goal.

Qt is what KDE uses, and Qt has XEmbed support.
There is some helpful Qt documents about Xembed here:

http://doc.trolltech.com/solutions/qtxembed/qtxembedcontainer.html

        Jan D.