>On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 13:55, Paul Davis wrote: >> >> Is this possible to build it without KDE requirement >> > >> >While our user interface is KDE/Qt, the base/ (core library) is just >> >plain C++/STL. >> >> IMHO, Qt is not a problem. KDE is. Same goes for GTK/GNOME. As I've >> said before, I don't think people writing audio/midi/music >> applications should be using "desktop environments". > >Their time is much better spent reimplementing everything a desktop >environment gives in non-standard ways that no-one other than themselves
and what precisely is it that a "desktop environment gives" that needs reimplementing in an audio/MIDI/music/sound application? cut-n-paste? thats toolkit-level. configuration files? i'd prefer a standalone XML library. integration into the "start" menu? the idea that i need GNOME around for a guitar tuning program, and that it benefits from integration with GNOME, is so beyond my capacity to understand that i'm lost for words (for once, and not for long :) --p
