On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, David Walluck wrote: > Vincent Danen wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > 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". > > 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. > > 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). > > 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). >
Also, the other point is that a GTK->Qt port of the draktools is really of no benefit, unless the can be integrated with KDE (ie embedded in KDE Control Center). Otherwise, you can achieve more or less the same thing by ensuring that there are consitent GTk/Qt themes so that you wouldn't notice the difference. This would be easeir, and of greater value. And, non-KDE stuff can already be embedded in KDE Control Center, so I *really* see no benefit. So, before one has a poll, one needs to ensure that the proposals are understood. A Qt port wouldn't mean better KDE integration (besides style, colours etc). Better KDE integration would come at the cost of requiring 50 MB of KDE libraries on machines that could possibly only have had 300MB of software installed otherwise (and still have a working contrl center). Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
