Intel Dev: GTK's Biggest Problem, and What Qt Does Better

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 16, 2014 @02:30AM from the choosing-sides dept.

Freshly Exhumed writes "Phoronix has an article about how Dirk Hohndel of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center has stirred the hornet's nest with a talk at Australia's Linux.Conf.Au (MP4 file) about what he views as the biggest problem with the GTK: he finds dealing with upstream GTK/GNOME developers to be tough, with frequent abuse and flame-wars, with accusations from the developers that "you're doing it wrong." Conversely, he found the Qt development community to be quite the opposite: willing to engage and help, with plenty of application developer documentation and fewer communication problems than with their GTK counterparts."

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Re:GTK is trash by cheesybagel · 2014-01-16 04:13 · Score: 5, Interesting

The license issues were bad enough at one point that the KDE developers themselves started developing their own OSS version of Qt called Harmony. After Trolltech made the license more open Harmony folded.