On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 17:53 -0400, Robert Xu wrote: [...] > would it be possible to move drakxtools slowly away from perl gtk? > Or at least make perl gtk better (and provide a perlQt implementation?)
In principle there could be a GDK port to use Qt, so the same *drak code would work with both toolkits. > Because as far as I'm concerned, if any of these GUIs freeze up, it's > automatically sucky. > Which most of them will do (ex rpmdrake) > (Even though most aren't, but this affects usability very much) I have not seen rpmdrake freeze up, not like KDE apps :-) but that's probably because I use a gnome desktop by preference. But rpmdrake ported to Qt would probably "freeze up" in the same places. It needs more asynchronous operations. At one point I thought about using dbxml (a small, fast interface to XML documents, with a btree index and dynamic hashing), which would probably make rpmdrake and urpmi a lot faster, but the dbxml packages didn't even build easily on Mandriva, and the rpm didn't install the perl API. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org