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Shuttleworth Sees Possibility For a QT-based GNOME

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 14, 2008 @01:44AM from the left-some-neurons-in-space dept.

An anonymous reader writes "derStandard.at has an extensive interview with Ubuntu-founder Mark Shuttleworth, in which he seems to be pushing for a switch to QT in the GNOME-project: 'I think it would be perfectly possible to deliver the values of GNOME on top of QT.' He goes on to talk about Apple as an 'innovation leader' and problems with Hardy Heron."

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Re:eh? by Jurily · 2008-07-14 02:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

From your link:

Although KDE was free software, it relied on the then non-free Qt widget toolkit. Members of the GNU project became concerned with the use of such a toolkit for building a free software desktop environment.
I think the original point of GNOME is already moot. Just let it die, with all its braindead file selection dialogs and reversed OK and Cancel buttons too.