On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Ville M. Vainio <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. Thanks for these remarks. I feel a bit better about this past year's work :-) Edward --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
