David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Mandrake is a GUI based, KDE centered distro.  If
> you're going to run a GUI anyway, and use GUI admin
> tools, there's absolutely nothing wrong with having to
> have Qt.  If you don't want the GUI admin tools use
> console based ones.

the policy about our tools is to use perl, and:

- currently there seem to be no decent perl-Qt binding
- we already have a code base extending perl-Gtk to get a usable
  toolkit (my_gtk)
- we already have a code base providing abstraction in the config
  tools for implementation into Gtk, Newt and stdio (interactive)

adding that:

- libgtk+ is about 794103 bytes (try to remove libglib from your
  system) while libqt is 2878170 bytes
- gtk+ seems more desktop agnostic than qt (i know this is
  partially moot, that's why i said "seems") and is used by more
  agnostic apps than qt
- developers of mandrake have better knowledge of gtk+ than qt

i think this is too late to switch provided the small advantages
it has.

-- 
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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