"Users of KDE scoffed at this and said that icons, menus and mice were the way to go."
No, they didn't. You're making that up. You are, in fact, lying. KDE has always supported creating and customizing an endless amount of keyboard shortcuts, something for which it has been criticized. But it still proudly shows the Settings/Keyboard Shortcuts menu in every application.
Are you using the same home partition for both distributions? It's not unlikely it's a configuration problem in that case -- some setting in the shared.kde4 directory messes up.
Well, the single-window interface for GIMP was designed by a professional interaction designer, not by the developers. Maybe it's you who doesn't know anything about interaction design? Or maybe you just haven't given the interaction a try and are just judging based on a screenshot?
Krita (http://www.krita.org) actually supports 10 and 12 bit/channel displays directly in its opengl mode. People tell me it works perfectly, but even though I coded it, I've never seen it work for lack of a high-end display:-).
On the other hand, I get questions almost daily about whether Krita is available for windows yet. So there is user demand, just like there is for Gimp, which has more than a million downloads for windows yearly.
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I just realized that that's the reason focus-follows-mouse never made sense for me: I'm left-handed. There's no way I can select text and have my hand on the mouse at the same time.
Never trust business -- big, small, internation, whatever, doesn't matter who, don't trust them. You didn't elect them, they don't represent you, they are out to screw you. And never trust a neighbour -- they don't own what you have, and want it. Make sure you get theirs first. Never trust your parents, or your children. Never trust yourself, even. Never trust! Trust me, you know it makes sense.
Second page, top link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondage_suit.
(Not that I knew what "gimp" meant in American English until people started complaining about the name on slashdot...)
You can compile the free version of Qt with Visual Studio (express or standard) without any problems. I do it regularly. You might be thinking of the IDE integration, which is a problem, but one for which Microsoft, not Nokia, is responsible.
Rosegarden is quite a famous example, especially since one of the rosegarden authors used to be a gtkmm maintainer. His articles on the subject can still be found and are still well worth reading.
Yes, the python, the ruby, the php, the C# bindings are in actual use. If you hang out on irc in #qt, you're going to be surprised how many people are using them. The C bindings to Qt were dropped a long time ago: they existed to make it easier to generate, for instance, Objective C bindings. But generating bindings for C++ libraries using sip or smoke is so easy, they were obsolete. And of course, nobody who isn't start raving bonkers would try to write an application in C if he can use any other language, so nobody used them directly.
Well, the Python, Ruby, C# and Java bindings to Qt are also excellent and have excellent tools support.
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And don't forget that Qt+QtWebkit is a very good choice for a cross-platform RIA application -- it's what we're doing at work and it's giving us a chance to get the best of two rolds.
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I'm curious: what did your company choose? Homegrown?
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Nothing human is perfect. However, having used GTK, wxWidgets, XForms, V, Motif, MFC, Borland VCL, Visual Basic, Swing, AWT, GNUStep and Qt, I have to say that Qt beats the others consistently in look & feel, ease of development, clarity of documentation, orthogonality of API and breadth of features. Not to mention cross-platformity:-) Plus, the tools, like Designer, Linguist, Creator and Assistant are top-notch.
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"Users of KDE scoffed at this and said that icons, menus and mice were the way to go." No, they didn't. You're making that up. You are, in fact, lying. KDE has always supported creating and customizing an endless amount of keyboard shortcuts, something for which it has been criticized. But it still proudly shows the Settings/Keyboard Shortcuts menu in every application.
Are you using the same home partition for both distributions? It's not unlikely it's a configuration problem in that case -- some setting in the shared .kde4 directory messes up.
Yes, it does. The skype icon on my KDE 4.7 system appears in the systemtray, just like any other systray app I've ever tried.
Krita can handle 32 bit/channel floating point images -- painting is fine, for instance. It's got fairly complete support for exr files as well.
Well, the single-window interface for GIMP was designed by a professional interaction designer, not by the developers. Maybe it's you who doesn't know anything about interaction design? Or maybe you just haven't given the interaction a try and are just judging based on a screenshot?
Krita (http://www.krita.org) actually supports 10 and 12 bit/channel displays directly in its opengl mode. People tell me it works perfectly, but even though I coded it, I've never seen it work for lack of a high-end display :-).
On the other hand, I get questions almost daily about whether Krita is available for windows yet. So there is user demand, just like there is for Gimp, which has more than a million downloads for windows yearly.
Yes, we are: interim results at http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=Krita/Benchmarking and weekly updates at http://www.krita.org/ Boudewijn Rempt -- Krita Maintainer.
I just realized that that's the reason focus-follows-mouse never made sense for me: I'm left-handed. There's no way I can select text and have my hand on the mouse at the same time.
Never trust business -- big, small, internation, whatever, doesn't matter who, don't trust them. You didn't elect them, they don't represent you, they are out to screw you. And never trust a neighbour -- they don't own what you have, and want it. Make sure you get theirs first. Never trust your parents, or your children. Never trust yourself, even. Never trust! Trust me, you know it makes sense.
Not "principle" -- "principal". Get some vocabulary!
Second page, top link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondage_suit. (Not that I knew what "gimp" meant in American English until people started complaining about the name on slashdot...)
Yes, Qt has IPC capabilities
Well, Qt can, on X11, optionally use glib's event engine, but it still includes its own as well. It's integration, not replacement.
"Bullshit. a .0 release says "This thing is ready for general consumption"."
Horse manure. It doesn't.
No, it's your general size and shape. Just extrapolate from the animals in question...
You can compile the free version of Qt with Visual Studio (express or standard) without any problems. I do it regularly. You might be thinking of the IDE integration, which is a problem, but one for which Microsoft, not Nokia, is responsible.
Rosegarden is quite a famous example, especially since one of the rosegarden authors used to be a gtkmm maintainer. His articles on the subject can still be found and are still well worth reading.
Like all KDE applications, Kolourpaint runs on any Unix desktop, Windows and OSX.
Yes, the python, the ruby, the php, the C# bindings are in actual use. If you hang out on irc in #qt, you're going to be surprised how many people are using them. The C bindings to Qt were dropped a long time ago: they existed to make it easier to generate, for instance, Objective C bindings. But generating bindings for C++ libraries using sip or smoke is so easy, they were obsolete. And of course, nobody who isn't start raving bonkers would try to write an application in C if he can use any other language, so nobody used them directly.
Well, the Python, Ruby, C# and Java bindings to Qt are also excellent and have excellent tools support.
And don't forget that Qt+QtWebkit is a very good choice for a cross-platform RIA application -- it's what we're doing at work and it's giving us a chance to get the best of two rolds.
I'm curious: what did your company choose? Homegrown?
I don't either, but he might take a look at kexi http://www.kexi-project.org/...
Nothing human is perfect. However, having used GTK, wxWidgets, XForms, V, Motif, MFC, Borland VCL, Visual Basic, Swing, AWT, GNUStep and Qt, I have to say that Qt beats the others consistently in look & feel, ease of development, clarity of documentation, orthogonality of API and breadth of features. Not to mention cross-platformity :-) Plus, the tools, like Designer, Linguist, Creator and Assistant are top-notch.