I'll just repeat (since these threads seem to be linked from many places) - a Qt version for Linux is not impossible, it just requires a dedicated set of folk to work on it and maintain it. The design of Chromium is such that N front ends are possible. The team is most familiar with GTK and so that's where they'll be focusing their energy.
-Ben On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:59 PM, inaneframe <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not understanding the animosity shown toward GTK in this thread > thus far. A majority of GNU/Linux distros are now using GNOME as the > default distro, I use and nearly every Free Software user that I know > IRL uses and prefers it. I'm not going to bad mouth QT, I used it > predominately a couple years ago in the 3.2 days and used it up until > the betas of 3.5. > > All I want is a fast browser and I for one am happy about the choice > to use GTK, not only because I use GNOME but also because I've noticed > quite a bit of difference between loading QT in a non-QT environment > vs loading GTK in a non-GTK environment, GTK is faster. Try loading > Dolphin or Konqueror from GNOME and then Thunar, nautilus or epiphany > from KDE and it's apparent. Dolphin is a very fast application, > pretty darn slow to load in GNOME, Thunar is comparable directly, fast > as hell to load in either environment. > > All I know is that there shouldn't be this kind of hate in the Free > Software community. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
