Hi just want to throw this out since I got approached by the KDE people at the Gran Canarias Desktop summit (guadec + akademy http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/) about the factuality of migrating OOo to the Qt toolkit.
Although the chances were slim I did feel obligated to upstream the question ad look at this as both a challenge and a request. Technically speaking is this possible at all, and how many effort would it take. I know that OOo has been doing some refactoring of some components to enhance the performance and also make the code easier to interact with. However is the visual layer abstracted from the application logic enough to consider replacing the toolkit? They ideas they presented is that avoiding the maintenance of our own toolkit we can open the door to free some resources to take care of more important things. Also that the Qt toolkit is a more modern and with better performance toolkit than what they have seen in OOo. Qt is also very portable as it has been ported to several architectures even mobile devices. So before knocking this idea, I would like to maybe learn more about how OOo native toolkit works within OOo. -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: j...@jabber.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@api.openoffice.org
