QnD [Joachim Staib] wrote:
This info is passed to the "renderer", the engine which either renders the XML stuff to QT or GTK or HTML or so.
And then one wonders how licq can be one of the top memory eaters on one's desktop system. But that is even without abstractions of abstractions of abstractions. IMHO an ICQ client is not a place where an own XML language is needed for GUI definition. XUL anyone? It took the Mozilla guys years till this stuff really worked, and it's still an alien in the system. For a relatively simple application like licq, it may not be worth the trouble and work. Sometimes simple and direct solutions work better than complex generalized ones. A developer knowing qt can simply improve the current qt-gui without first having to learn yet another GUI definition language and work around special cases that are not handled well in that language but would be just a few lines of code in a general purpose programming language like C++. licq may not have a GUI that has all the features and looks about the same on every output medium (like qt, gtk, HTML or console). But on the other hand it's easy to handle the special requirements of that medium. There are things you just cannot do in HTML, which are pretty normal in a GUI application. So would the renderer just silently drop them and maybe make that function completely unusable? Or would one just not be able to use them in any GUI? Specialized things are not as sexy to programmers as general one-size-fits-all solutions. But they often just work better in reality. Learned that the hard way myself and want to spare others the pain. That's my few cents on this, Nine ------------------------------------------------------- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=107521&bid=248729&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Licq-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/licq-devel
