Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
wow, this is the worst gnome troll, i've ever seen...
to be precise, QT had antialiasing and good localisation a long time before gtk (back when gtk2 didn't exist and QT was at 2.x)
keep in mind that pdas are even more uncommon in those places, so i wouln't want to spend too much on such a device.
also keep in mind, that it actually is possible to learn a language, which does not happen to be the most widespread on this earth (or at least in those parts of this world you happen to travel to)...
konqueror is a great browser. and actually the most impressive feature it has to offer is the kparts system, which integrates virtually everything which (you decide) is useful. for instance if you choose to open a pdf directly in your browser, konqueror does so (and way better than adobes crappy plugin -- well except for rendering of pdfs, which isn't exactly kde's fault, but originates in pdfs semi-open nature). same is true for a variety of other filetypes, which i personally like to see in one of my browsers tabs.
and while i don't use kde as a desktop environment, there are numerous kde/qt apps i wouldn't want to live without. i have to say, i'm pretty impressed with the upcoming version 3.2.
of course many ideas are borrowed (or stolen, if you prefer) from other desktop environments / operating systems, that's a good thing (as has been mentioned a thousand times before).
finally i want to comment about the toolkit itself, which has matured quite a bit itself. almost every modern toolkit (well, that is gtk and qt) offers the same features. among them are good internationalisation, decent fonts, etc. qt however handles expose events and redrawing in general a thousand times faster than gtk2. gtk on the other hand offers a greater variety of language bindings.
seems like it's a matter of preference, but i'm satisfied.
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
wow, this is the worst gnome troll, i've ever seen...
to be precise, QT had antialiasing and good localisation a long time before gtk (back when gtk2 didn't exist and QT was at 2.x)
keep in mind that pdas are even more uncommon in those places, so i wouln't want to spend too much on such a device.
also keep in mind, that it actually is possible to learn a language, which does not happen to be the most widespread on this earth (or at least in those parts of this world you happen to travel to)...
agreed.
konqueror is a great browser. and actually the most impressive feature it has to offer is the kparts system, which integrates virtually everything which (you decide) is useful. for instance if you choose to open a pdf directly in your browser, konqueror does so (and way better than adobes crappy plugin -- well except for rendering of pdfs, which isn't exactly kde's fault, but originates in pdfs semi-open nature). same is true for a variety of other filetypes, which i personally like to see in one of my browsers tabs.
and while i don't use kde as a desktop environment, there are numerous kde/qt apps i wouldn't want to live without. i have to say, i'm pretty impressed with the upcoming version 3.2.
of course many ideas are borrowed (or stolen, if you prefer) from other desktop environments / operating systems, that's a good thing (as has been mentioned a thousand times before).
finally i want to comment about the toolkit itself, which has matured quite a bit itself. almost every modern toolkit (well, that is gtk and qt) offers the same features. among them are good internationalisation, decent fonts, etc. qt however handles expose events and redrawing in general a thousand times faster than gtk2. gtk on the other hand offers a greater variety of language bindings.
seems like it's a matter of preference, but i'm satisfied.
keep up the great work.
actually it's not even an operating system, it's a kernel. refer to http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html for more information. nevermind, dna