My main problem with the idea is that the vast majority of apps I use are GTK+ ones with no acceptable Qt alternatives and I worry that a move to Qt would jeopardize the ready availability of a less GNOME3-ish GTK+ theme for most of the apps on my Lubuntu desktop.
(Nothing matches Audacious for a compact chiptune-playing GUI, nothing matches Geeqie for a responsive image viewer, The default (GTK+) Firefox theme is the only one that is reliably compatible with the Aurora channel, etc.) QGtkStyle is an officially-supported part of Qt, so I can effortlessly mix Qt apps into my primarily GTK+ desktop and force GNOME/OSX "Cancel/OK" button order on them. (It's not just taste. It's superior and I've got a link I can share to explain why.) gtk-engines-qt has been bitrotting for years and native Qt themes tend to force Windows/KDE-style "OK/Cancel" button order with no option to change that. On the plus side, at least the native Qt file dialogs have "Rename" and "Delete" in the context menu, unlike the GTK+ ones. (but I can't remember whether it was Qt4 or just the DolphinPart and the KDE 4 file dialogs that play badly with my high-resolution mouse compared to Qt 3.) (And I do already have a fair few Qt apps. KRename, Filelight since Baobab's radial view is a lazy afterthought, K3b since others are too crash-happy or too spartan, Okular since Lubuntu's Evince doesn't do CHM or offer bitmap/screenshot select-to-clipboard for PDF, GoldenDict, LyX, and Skype, for example.) On 13-04-22 05:00 PM, Julien Lavergne wrote: > 2013/4/22 Andrej N. Gritsenko <[email protected]>: >> Hello! >> >> PCMan have written on Tuesday, 26 March, at 10:42: >>> Hello world, >>> I just released PCManFM Qt file manager 0.1.0. >>> The tarball is available for download here. >> >> I never looked into razor-qt before and I wasn't aware such DE even >> exists but now that I looked into its site I've found out some conceptual >> similarities with LXDE. And I've got some crazy idea. Since libfm/pcmanfm >> has Qt port already and LXDE as whole has too few active developers, it >> might be reasonable to join projects (razor-qt and LXDE), i.e. port to Qt >> rest of LXDE components so LXDE will be based on Qt instead of GTK and >> razor-qt will get few missing applications as well. It's a crazy idea, I >> know, and may be even silly one, I just got that thought and decided to >> write it out loud. :) >> I never did comparizon on resourses consumption between pcmanfm GTK >> and Qt versions though, it should be done somehow sometime. And if Qt is >> more lightweight than GTK then... you know. :) >> The only problem is that GTK is C but Qt is C++... > > It's not a so crazy idea. I'm seriously looking at razor-qt and Qt in > general for a possible future of Lubuntu. Ubuntu will use more and > more Qt applications in the future, so it makes sense for us to > investigate this way. > > Regards, > Julien Lavergne > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced > analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building > apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use > our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! > http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Pcmanfm-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pcmanfm-develop
