On 04/03/2013 04:41 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote:
Alex Vergara Gil wrote:
I don´t know if thi request can be made inside Qt (I think there
should be some package for this in the nokia library!).
Pavel Sanda wrote:
No it isn't. Mr Google suggest that "Qt team at one point stopped
developing
the control due to Microsoft licensing."
This sounds funny given the fact that tabbed toolbar was already
around in 90s
and I remember it from Borland's Delphi UI.
Pavel
Yes indeed, this sounds like we should not be able to build frames at
all because they look like Microsoft´s Windows and these are licensed
by Microsoft ;) so what kind of things are legal or not? This point
puts even more fuzzy to my logic! I thougth graphic design as long as
it is not equal are not the same and we can make the ribbon as
different as we want, just keeping the idea and even better, instead
of putting it in the top we can put then at the left so we can avoid
the vertical space eating that Jacob mentioned.
Though one can put it this way: Nokia decided they did not wish to spend
a gazillion dollars fighting a patent case, even if they might win it in
the end, and even if Microsoft's patent makes about as much sense as the
old joke that they would eventually patent 0 and 1.
Remember: Apple got a design patent for a rectangle with rounded
corners, and they won a patent infringement suit against Samsung. Really.
That's the sad state of US patent law.
Richard
