nanogui: QT Port?
Subject:
RE: QT Port?
From:
Jean-Eric Cuendet ####@####.####
Date:
14 Apr 2000 12:08:36 -0000
Message-Id: <B45465FD9C23D21193E90000F8D0F3DF68328F@mailsrv.linkvest.ch>
>
> Guys,
> how about helping Greg with the GTK/GDK Port ?
> Somehow, my self, I feel better with an open source stuff
> then with a product
> owned by a Company.
> Who guarantee, when some embedded product (using Qt) have
> success on the
> market, then you have to pay extra for Qt?
>
My thouhgts are:
QT is COMPLETELY open-source (the X11 version). Event if Troll wants to,
they CAN'T retain rights on it. QT will never be closed-sourced because they
simply can't under the license they choose (QPL). That's why redhat
introduced KDE in their distibution. (No closed-source product in RedHat)
Secondly, C++ is much better for GUI building than C. So, building GUI with
Qt is much easier than with GTK. GTK is object oriented but all the objects
concepts are made "artificially" with struct of pointers on methods while QT
is truly object oriented with C++ stuff. The compiler holds all the pointer
on methods stuff in the virtual table of objects.
Don't forget that KDE is the leading desktop on Linux. So, having Qt is a
non-negligeable gain.
-jec
