2015-07-18 16:48 GMT+02:00 Bob Hood <bho...@comcast.net>: > On 7/18/2015 8:30 AM, Elvis Stansvik wrote: >> Another small nitpick on that page (see attached screenshot) is the >> two subtitles "Commercial". When they are juxtaposed like that it >> looks kind of weird. It's also weird that they are the _only_ >> subtitles under "Qt for Application Development" and "Qt for Device >> Creation". > > Not really that weird. They just pushing the commercial license. If you want > LGPL, you have to work harder to find it. :)
:) Yes, of course it's easy to see the motivations behind them having the commercial links at the top, and imagine the discussions behind it. They even use a smaller font for the open source option (which is down below). I just thought the look was weird because the "Commercial" subtitles really stand out in black on white, so at first glance, at least I thought "uh, so are they the same..?", until a few seconds late when you realize the main titles are different. So it was mostly a easthetic / usability point. > > But I have agree with some of the sentiments expressed here. Their not > selling an application to an end user, they're selling a toolkit to software > developers. I think the overall look and feel of the web site was simply > copied from other sites around the web, but that site design targets the wrong > kind of audience in this case. I think you're right. And also, with the unification of both the commercial and open source websites under qt.io, they have two audiences to serve. This time I think they've, if not slammed, then at leasted closed the door a little on the latter audience. Elvis > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest