Benedikt Meurer wrote: > Biju Chacko wrote: > >>>Benedikt, any time you and/or any one else wants to make the jump to QT4 >>>I will gladly follow... and take my skills with me. I agree with >>>everything you have said on this topic. I have been fed up with >>>GTK+/GNOME for years (and Fedora). The root of the problem as I see it >>>is Redhat's control over both projects (the project leaders work for >>>Redhat). This has continually stifled innovation because both projects >>>are not independent and tend to program with Redhat blinkers on. I have >>>continued to write my C++ library for GTK+ for several reasons. I have >>>already spent years on my project and it's hard to throw it all away. >>>When I started out I thought that GTK+ needed all the help it could >>>get... but I was wrong. It is very hard to help either GTK or GNOME >>>programmatically. In the past my concern about moving to QT is "What >>>program would I write if I did"? Language bindings are out... I wouldn't >>>know what to program. One thing I am looking forward to is the first >>>stable release of openSUSE next week. Finally I can dump Fedora. >> >>Umm, Sun and Novell have a heck of a lot more GNOME guys than we (Red >>Hat) do. > > > I agree with Jeff except that I don't think that RedHat is the only > problem source around. RedHat had the chance to turn Gtk+ into something > usable years ago, similar to what Trolltech did to Qt, but they missed > the chance. Now that Sun and Novell entered the stage, chances are very > low that either of them will do it.
I'm not very familiar with the history of GTK+, so I can't comment. I've just noticed a new trend of depicting RH as the new M$. Just remember the old saying, "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequetly explained by incompetence" RH makes as many mistakes as the next company ... -- b _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev