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Shuttleworth Sees Possibility For a QT-based GNOME
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."
Why the hell shouldn't KDE swith to Gtk then? I don't like KDE and I've **NEVER** liked KDE. Ever. And its not for lack of trying or wanting to like KDE. I just can't use it for longer than 20 minutes before I get incredibly frustrated and give up. Its been that way for me for 10 years.
I'm quite content with GNOME right now, but if they switched to Qt, or tried to merge with KDE, I'd go full-time to e17 and say a pox on both their houses. But that is just me.
I like the things he told Datamation better. His respect for upstream developers and software freedom was more apparent than it is here.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
For me, QT applications just don't seem that stable. Very few GTK applications have crashed on me yet QT applications seem to segfault like there is no tomorrow.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Nope. Gnome still serves it's original intended purpose:
The core GUI is not tied up in the interests of one
singlular for-profit corporation. Perversely enough, this
manifests most in "commercialization". Some guy that wants
to write the next "procomm" doesn't have to worry about
Troll being... well a Troll and asking for some large toll.
Before QT can be a proper core gui library for even a
strictly commercial OS, it needs to be liberated from Troll.
Any model that resolves to "buy our libraries" for any
class of user just isn't going to work. That's already been
tried with CDE. That model is why CDE on Linux never went
anywhere.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
I agree. I have had far more stability using gtk apps then qt apps. I have also had far more stability using gnome then kde.
Truth be told, as a user, I don't care much about the technical aspects of each. I just want stable programs that look great with a feel that matches the rest of my desktop and integrates into the environment.
As a developer, I want a stable, well documented, api and good ide support.
Right now I like gtk because it meets that criteria better (in my opinion).
I'd happily switch to anything that does the job better. I do not see a point in switching to anything that does the job just as well.
difference being one of them they need to give away their application with, the other they don't ( KDELibs' biggest fault is that it's GPL. That's why RealPlayer for example uses GTK+ )
Mod him down, down, down. Erris is a known sockpuppet of epic troll twitter. Heck, he's even linking to his journal. Just mod him down so he can't post anymore, ever. We are sick and tired of this person!
Right, which is why it's declining in popularity
Really advantageous to be GPL... keeps the non-religious out
...to pay your $699 licensing fee you cock smoking teabaggers
Why is it that there's always a dedazo, willyhill, macthrope troll following "twitter" in every thread? Because twitter is not afraid to call astroturf what it is and you people hate that. Your attempts to silence him are disturbing and seem to be successful. Anywhere you trolls post, there's an immediate downmod, regardless of who is called out. This kind of community negating power can only come from abusing multiple accounts. The article linked to by Erris is interesting, not a troll.
You point to the page that proves what an ass you are. If all the trolls here did that, I'd have far less work to do. Here are some more links you can add to your self destructive and obsessive hobby:
It's too bad you seem to have so many modpoints to give yourself. Slashdot has been gamed badly.
Political torture and murder is not funny http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=581079&cid=23757591