"Russel Winder" <rus...@russel.org.uk> wrote in message news:mailman.1305.1323019362.24802.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 12:00 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >[...] > >> >PyQt has an unfriendly licence for anyone wishing to >> >make proprietary systems. >> >> I didn't know that. Do you know if that's specific to PyQt, or inhereted >> from Qt? > >As David pointed out, PyQt stayed GPL and commercial licence when Qt >went to LGPL and commercial licence. People with money can just pay for >the commercial licences of course, but the fact that PyQt didn't switch >to LGPL when Qt did annoyed a lot of people. Sifficient to start teh >PySide project. >
I see. Thanks. >[...] >> What I meant about Gnome is just that, IMO, everthing on Gnome looks all >> big-n-chunky with way too much padding. YMMV. > >It depends on the engine you use. For Gnome 2 I used thinice which gets >rid of all the chunkyness. For Gnome 3 I am using Adwaita which is a >bit chunkier but not too much so -- and I am a person who thinks that >chunkyness is anathema not just a bad thing. > I had no idea. I'll have to try those next time I'm on Gnome.
