TrollTech's Harri Porten On KDE Present And Future

Joe User writes: "Harri Porten is one of the most active KDE developers, working on mostly on Konqueror, while he is also a TrollTech employee, the QT creators. Harri talks to OSNews in an interview about KDE, QT 3, licensing and more."

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I hate to be a troll

[Anonymous Coward]

But the best parts of the interview are the mangling of the english language...

"How Trolltech chooses the parts of Qt that will be kept commercial and which parts will be open sourced?"

"Microsoft is trying to create a 'new way' of running applications through the internet, applications written in C# or VB?"

"Why such a feature is not part of Qt?"

Sheesh...

-AC

Re:I hate to be a troll - then don't be

[Anonymous Coward]

The editor is Greek and the interviewed is Norwegian. What did you expect?

Geographical location a concern for Trolltech?

[thehe]

At least for the few of us located up here in Norway (info on Norway), and possibly as an indication for the rest of you, it would have been quite interesting to hear Harri's comments on Trolltech being based in the cold corner up by the North Pole.

Due to the overall slowing down of the computer related business worldwide, there has lately been quite a few people in the Norwegian computing sector asking themselves, and each other, whether being based in Norway is the most profitable choice. Although from the first half of 2001, this article (sorry, norwegian only) states that some 40% of Norwegian tech companies are based abroad.

Personally, I do not believe Norway to be the worst of choices, for any number of reasons, not the least of which is probably that I am Norwegian...

But it would have been nice to know have someone in Trolltech felt about this!

Erik

Dodges the X question?

[RadioheadKid]

I found it a little interesting how Porten says while answering the question about should QT replace X:
"I..fail to see why we should be interested in replacing any of them [meaning X or other graphical platforms]."

But later on in the same answer states that "KDE and Qt Palmtop are existing examples of how this framework then can be used to build a complete desktop."

This question could have definetly used a follow-up, too bad it was an email interview...

Re:Dodges the X question?

[Anonymous Coward]

I fail to see your point. IMHO you're getting into the usual comparing of apples and oranges... the X-Server is a component that allows programs to display graphical and textual information. Nothing more, nothing less. It isn't a desktop environment like that Windows aspires to be. So there is nothing wrong when KDE and Qt Palmtop try to be the framework in such an environment. X is just the low level layer and it's not the worst. I wholeheartedly think that X is quite a good, reliable and dependable component on unix. There is nothing wrong about it except maybe that it lacks a few percent of performance because of network transparency (whis has saved my a** more times than I can remember).

So to surmise: A graphical platform is not an desktop environment.

regards

Harri, fahr schon mal den Wagen vor...

[Anonymous Coward]

Ja, Stefan

I love it.

[Q*bert]

For almost every question asked, his response boils down to, "Yep, we already have that. It was released a while ago. Here are the classes involved..."
--Q