On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Jerome Kieffer wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 08:44:36 +0100 > Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Sounds like a worthy candidate for the Google Summer of Code. >> > >> Too late for the GSoC (deadline for students was last Friday) and I >> don't think we would have >> accepted this as a project. > > After having looked the conference of Dirk Hohndel on last > linux.conf.au about the switch of his (together with Linus) > application from GTK to Qt ... in a year > > This took them a year of work and they are much more skilled than most of us. > Considering this could be done by a student over a summer is just unrealistic. > > Grace has its root in the late 80's it is C code (in which I am not > especially fluent) Qt is C++ based. Moreover, Dirk noted some miss-fit > of Qt with C ... > > So this is probably a great project but it will be difficult to > motivate somebody skilled enough to do this work
It's a matter of switching font rasterizer libraries, not toolkits, so this isn't as complex as you are thinking. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CANTw=MNaKEt_L5=QJ2NeXygEDp=vnnyxromp0zbxkpodvd7...@mail.gmail.com
