Just to add to what Ben said earlier in the thread, the Cocoa
front-end is progressing quite well even though the Win UI is very
different from Cocoa in terms of the interaction models and how the
toolkits are designed (C++ vs Objective-C). The Model-View-Controller
design of the shared code is proving that we can slap just about any
UI we want on top of it (so far).
This bodes well for some other group doing a Qt version. Just wanted
to provide something tangible to the "it should be possible" argument.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Ben Goodger (Google) <b...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> I'll just repeat (since these threads seem to be linked from many
> places) - a Qt version for Linux is not impossible, it just requires a
> dedicated set of folk to work on it and maintain it. The design of
> Chromium is such that N front ends are possible. The team is most
> familiar with GTK and so that's where they'll be focusing their
> energy.
>
> -Ben
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:59 PM, inaneframe <inane...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not understanding the animosity shown toward GTK in this thread
>> thus far. A majority of GNU/Linux distros are now using GNOME as the
>> default distro, I use and nearly every Free Software user that I know
>> IRL uses and prefers it. I'm not going to bad mouth QT, I used it
>> predominately a couple years ago in the 3.2 days and used it up until
>> the betas of 3.5.
>>
>> All I want is a fast browser and I for one am happy about the choice
>> to use GTK, not only because I use GNOME but also because I've noticed
>> quite a bit of difference between loading QT in a non-QT environment
>> vs loading GTK in a non-GTK environment, GTK is faster. Try loading
>> Dolphin or Konqueror from GNOME and then Thunar, nautilus or epiphany
>> from KDE and it's apparent. Dolphin is a very fast application,
>> pretty darn slow to load in GNOME, Thunar is comparable directly, fast
>> as hell to load in either environment.
>>
>> All I know is that there shouldn't be this kind of hate in the Free
>> Software community.
>> >
>>
>
> >
>
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