Picking apart one thing: > By the way, for the purposes I am using it for, TK does not strike me > as ugly - a common complaint. Do you have a problem with TK > aesthetics?
It's not just about "having method blah() on tree widget", or tolerable text widget - it's about the future of the technology. Tk is widely agreed to be a sinking ship (Tcl is pretty much dead already); of course Leo could only start focusing on Qt when the ship has actually sunk, but that would mean lots of the work put into Tk (that could be put on polishing Qt functionality) would have gone to waste. A significant matter is also developer mindset. There will always be people who know or want to learn Qt (and hence ready & willing to contribute ui tweaks for Leo), but that's far from the truth with Tk (even now, more few years down the road). There won't be a magic fairy that will suddenly start pumping money and resources on improving Tk, it's not a "critical" technology for any project or financial interest group - whereas Qt is what Nokia is betting the farm on (and Nokia does have tons of R&D money, which helps ;-). Future notwithstanding, you can easily contrast the current technical quality of the two UI's by focusing the tree widget and holding down an arrow key. Tk just can't keep up and flickers quite a bit (this on Ubuntu 9.04, with the AA fonts). Please file bugs about features missing from qt ui on launchpad. I think the most obvious omission atm is rclick, though I don't miss it much myself. -- Ville M. Vainio http://tinyurl.com/vainio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
