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First KDE 4 App ('Kind of') Running

Posted by timothy on from the this-is-the-building-back-up-phase dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like the first KDE 4 application is running. Click the link for screenshots." In short, "Kate now kind of works."

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  1. Re:KDE4? by Cthefuture · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am a small business owner. The price for 50 developers is a quarter million dollars.

    Look at it this way, the cross-platform market is small. There just isn't much money to be made there so the cross-platform toolkits should be cheap. Most of the time I would like to support other platforms but the cost can't be justified due to Qt's huge price and the relatively small cross-platform market. The only people it hurts are the users.

    If it weren't for the one or two cash-cows Trolltech has they would already be out of business. They're like a government contractor sucking the teet of wasteful spending (I wonder if one of their cash cows is some government).

    The reason I want Qt to be cheap is specifically so it does become massively widespread. This will make platform dependance a thing of the past. This helps us all.

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    The ratio of people to cake is too big