Agreed! Not everyone likes QtPyVCP, Qt, Tk, Gtk.. and users should have the freedom to install the interface they want and not have to have the ones they don't need.
But this would be an immense undertaking to make possible. Cheers! Kurt On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 12:44 AM Johannes P Fassotte < johan...@automationassist.com> wrote: > I have noticed that over the years LinuxCnc is taking up more and more > space and that this is mostly related to supporting the QT related > work. When looking at the amount of Pythom code that is now contained > in LinuxCnc it appears to equal more than 90% of all the code present > based on my prior searches and charting. > > I'm not in love with QT and in my personnal LinuxCnc installs QT related > items are one of the first things that gets removed from LinuxCnc. To me > it is just a tool to allow building QT based sluggish user interfaces > that I dont use. It would be better if it was a optional install for > users that which to use it. I do understand that it has taken a lot of > work to develop the QT things but I would like to see LinuxCnc trimmed > down to just containing the essential things. > > As far as tools for building user interfaces It would also not surprise > me if the next fad for building those is just around the corner and that > QT will hopefully be just part of the old LinuxCnc history. I there > will always be newer and better ways to get things done without getting > trapped into a current fad. > > It was not to may years ago that LinuxCnc was just over 120Mb in > extracted size. Now V 2.9 master is takes up 252Mb so its getting > bloaded with a lot of none essential things. I think it needs a good > cleaning to get it back on track. I feel that there are to many > personnal projects being added that are better suited to be developer > supported addtions and not part of LinuxCnc itself. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
