As the original author of toolbox (the style conflaguration tool), this was
a question i got from time to time. I originally wanted to make it "easy"
to create and edit styles. I also didn't want to write anything in Xlib. So
I originally went with Gtk+ before switching to QT. So in fact, it could be
much, much worse =). (note: gtk+ sucks ass, i won't debate this). But the
basic answer is, if you want a tool that's easy to use, that is useful and
expansive, and that will be finished in your lifetime, it's gotta be written
in a toolkit. And if you're going to use a toolkit, you should use the best
one available.
-Ryan
>From: Marco Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Marco Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: bbconf 1.0 is released. <BOOM>
>Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 00:18:25 +0200
>
>Hello,
>
>I read with great pleasure that *there is* finally something that:
> configures your style file...
> your keybindings
> can configure bbpager, bbmail, bbapm, bbweather, bbpal,
> bbwibble, and
> MORE!
>
>All in one place, and I can understand why now "no more development
>will be done on bbkeysconf or toolbox". However, I'm confused (and
>without bbconf) because it's written in Qt. After spending some year
>to find the fastest and leanest/minimalist wm around, and some days
>last week to build a fully functional system with the minimum possible
>usage of rpms, disk space, ram and cpu, (read "no kde/gnome here"),
>should I now install a tiny thing like the Qt libraries just to
>configure the more minimalist wm I could find?
>
>This is not an anti kde thing, finding it using gtk would have been
>the same: couldn't it have been using some smaller lib, or (excepted
>styles, of course) run happily within an xterm?
>Isn't this a contradiction?
>
>Any feedback is welcome.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Marco Fioretti
>
>
>--
>According to one popular definition, craziness is doing the same thing
>over and over but expecting different results.
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