On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 07:11 PM, David Walluck wrote:
Ahhh... ok. This is good news. Then I really don't care what happens... =) Then again, I'm not developing any of the tools... if I were, I'd probably be against such a radical change with nothing other than the look to show for it. My opinion.Can you tell me if qt requires any KDE junk installed? Ie. in order to use MCC, will a user have to install kdebase or kdelibs or is qt enough? One very good reason for using GTK is that you do not need GNOME installed.The relationship between QT and KDE is the same as the relationship between GTK+ and GNOME. You *do not* need to have KDE or the KDE libraries installed in order to use QT.
It would not be a good idea *at all* to require a bunch of KDE stuff in order to use the control center. What about server systems that only have, for example, blackbox or windowmaker installed? Are we to tell them that with 9.1 they must install a bunch of useless KDE stuff in order to use the drak* tools? With GTK, they don't have to install GNOME, so this is a step backward just to use the "latest thing".
I feel the same way about GNOME as you do about KDE. I don't use GNOME as my desktop environment, and I recently uninstalled GNOME to save disk space, but I still continue to use a few GTK+ apps (grip, gaim, to name a few).Yup... likewise. But I have KDE installed on my desktop machines (for testing, etc.) but I don't usually use it. Which is why I asked.. I've never tried to run a QT app without having KDE installed, so I wasn't sure. Actually, I don't think there are really any QT apps that I run.
The reason I suggested QT has nothing to do with my preferences, however. I don't know if Mandrake would even consider this. But if so, I suggest they do a poll (even on a vote on the club might be a good idea).Has nothing to do with your preferences, or only to do with your preferences. =)
Personally, I think there are much more important things to do than this... this seems to have no value other than for it to be QT vs. GTK. <shrug> I would, personally, put it very low on any priority list.
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