nanogui@linuxhacker.org

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > and most importantly runs on both X and Microwindows (we're
> > > using the Nano-X multiple client/server API).  We then wrote
> > > a very thin user interface (this needs more work) that allows
> > > a user to operate the display engine, essentially.
> > 
> > 
> > Argh. You just tied yourself to code that will have no development
> > whatsoever in the future. Why not use KDE2's widget? It's much better.
> 
> Well to be fair
> 
> 1.	The KDE2 widget is (or 2 weeks ago was) buggier than Mozilla at its
> 	worst

Well, it's in development. A month ago it worked very well, some fixes
caused some (big) trouble. They should get fixed soon.

> 2.	If you look how the port has been done you should be able to drop
> 	the KDE2 widget into the same Qt wrapper magic without much work
> 	when its ready

And why not cooperate with the guys who are developing? I mean, this is
the third fork from that codebase, so it's reasonable to assume it's the
better one around. Why not cooperate to make it better instead of forking?

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