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Novell Desktop To Standardize On Qt [updated]
Balinares writes "NewsForge reports that Novell has settled for Qt as its Linux desktop development environment, casting more light on their strategy to unify KDE and GNOME. This ought to be interesting. The prospect of using Mono to code against Qt makes me drool in advance. Maybe programming will suck no longer!" Update: 03/30 00:01 GMT by T : Sounds like that story doesn't quite hold water; Nat Friedman writes in this Slashdot comment that "We have not decided that we are standardizing on Qt for the desktop. ... We support development with a variety of toolkits, and our internal development is done using the right tool for the right problem. This includes Qt, Gtk, VCL, XUL and others, depending on the application."
Doesn't QT have a bunch of annoying licensing restrictions?
Nobody want to use the god-awful GIMP toolkit! Can't blame them. I mean, who wants their programs to look like something a gimp would design?
This article must be a mistake. GNOME zealots always tell us that corporations don't like Qt because it's GPLed. Obviously, this article is wrong, right?
Qt SUCKS! I hate C++! Long live GTK+! Fuck you Novell, you Linux-stealing bastard mother fuckers. Ya know they have ex-SCO execs working for them? They're both based in Utah after all. I say fuck 'em all and we keep the code to ourselves.
Niggers are ruining the internet
QT is much prettier than GTK..
- Hi I'm Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux, Lih-nix..
At least for inhouse software, you are going to have to convince your boss to ignore Trolltech and instead take advice from a bunch of IANAL internet wankers and their peculiar theories about the GPL.
> Nat Friedman
> Novell/SUSE Linux Desktop Lead
Nat, spreading hype again ? I bet you and Miguel are choking cock of Chris now to get GNOME into first run. But be sure they have larger dicks than you and will decide for the right one.
Seriously guys, Nat is the man
- Lovechild
Both GTK/GNOME and Qt/KDE are laughibly clunky compared to Windows. Dialog boxes, widget sets, choosers etc are still in the Win 3.x world.
Is it really so hard to fix one thing before moving to another?
Nat Friedman
Novell/SUSE Linux Desktop Lead
Erm, last I read that was VP of 'Novell Ximian Services'.
I'm sorry Nat, but while I don't know if this story is true or not, I don't think a comment from you is likely to help. You said a lot when the SuSE Novell merger started which turned out to be rubbish so how can anyone trust you to do more than push your own position now?
Rich.
All I can think to do at the moment after having
waded through piles and piles of crap comments
that have basically nothing to do with the topic
is rip my hair out and howl at the moon until my
brain explodes..
JEEZ you people! Havent you ever heard of MONO!!
Get with the friggen picture here.
Novel loves GNOME, this is all a bunch of FUD.
[favorite blog] http://planet.gnome.org/
So it's not like java at all. right?
Java: Write once run anywhere except on the customer's desktop.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
Well I don't see why it shouldn't be Qt. The fact is, it is just damn good.
Qt is decidedly last generation. Shit, it even relies on a preprocessor to provide its signals and slots, and has its own implementation of simple STL constructs. What a pile of ancient crap. And that's not even getting into the lack of more the advanced constructs shown in Microsoft's Avalon/Indigo NEXT GENERATION TOOLKIT demos.
I don't see how what was said could be mistranslated - the last I heard Chris Stone spoke English.
A German website writes an incorrect story... IN GERMAN... zealots translate it WRONGLY... and post to slashdot make ridiculous claims. Dumpfkopf.
Novell/SUSE Linux Desktop Lead
Pretty much tells you everything. Ximian has been disbanded and Nat has invented himself a new job title.
There's a long tradition of hysterical personal attacks from KDE supporters: remember Red Hat, Sun, Ximian... all have been subjected to this. Frankly, you are better off ignoring them; you can be certain that business people do.
Ximian, subjected to attacks. That's very funny. I think you can be certain that business people ignore Mguel Icaza and Nat Friedman.