_Replacing_ VCL with Qt would be a very huge project. Doing a Qt Plugin for VCL, similar like we have one for GNOME, should be possible with a reasonable amount of time.
The GSL mailing list is a better place for such questions/discussions. Malte. Alexandro Colorado wrote, On 07/07/09 09:47: > Hi just want to throw this out since I got approached by the KDE > people at the Gran Canarias Desktop summit (guadec + akademy > http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/) about the factuality of > migrating OOo to the Qt toolkit. > > Although the chances were slim I did feel obligated to upstream the > question ad look at this as both a challenge and a request. > > Technically speaking is this possible at all, and how many effort > would it take. I know that OOo has been doing some refactoring of some > components to enhance the performance and also make the code easier to > interact with. > > However is the visual layer abstracted from the application logic > enough to consider replacing the toolkit? > > They ideas they presented is that avoiding the maintenance of our own > toolkit we can open the door to free some resources to take care of > more important things. Also that the Qt toolkit is a more modern and > with better performance toolkit than what they have seen in OOo. Qt is > also very portable as it has been ported to several architectures even > mobile devices. > > So before knocking this idea, I would like to maybe learn more about > how OOo native toolkit works within OOo. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@api.openoffice.org
