On 01/14/2009 10:31 AM, Levi Pearson wrote:
I really don't care about what GUI toolkit my apps are written in, but I
think many Linux apps that use Gtk will continue to do so largely
because Gtk is C and Qt is C++. A lot of C developers, rationally or
not, hate C++ and won't consider switching to it.
And even some of us with only a mild distaste for C++ find Qt
unattractive because you don't REALLY write C++. At least the last time
I checked, you wrote in a very C++-like language that moc pre-processed
to C++. That gave me a rash. I can understand why they did it, but I
would argue that it's not C++.
And I do prefer the Gtk look-and-feel to Qt. I use Qt/KDE apps when I
like the app better (k3b, amarok) but it does seem like they target a
different type of user, or at least have different philosophies to the
point that convergence would really surprise (and probably disappoint) me.
Barry
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