Benjamin Huot wrote: > Scribus on Mac OS X, at least the 1.3.3.x stable version is so slow > and unresponsive that it is not usable on the Mac as far as I am > concerned. One of the problems is that it doesn't use the latest > major version of Qt, which doesn't perform well on the Mac. I heard > some where that this was done, because they wanted to make it > available for Windows and Qt 4 wasn't open source with the right > license for that. So basically it sounds like they chose the Windows > version over the Mac version.
When Scribus was ported to Mac OS X, Qt 4 was not available. Stable versions of Scribus still do not use Qt 4 - on any platform. This is because code must be ported from Qt 3 to Qt 4, Scribus has a lot of code, and there aren't that many people doing the porting. There was indeed no suitably licensed version of Qt for a Scribus Windows version when that first saw work. There still isn't, really, since Qt 4 Open Source Edition only supports MinGW. TrollTech have been kind enough to help the Scribus project out in this area, so that builds can be done with MSVC++ (thus gaining Scribus access to GDI+ etc, which MinGW doesn't support). In short, the Windows version has in no way been "chosen over" the Mac version. A large part - though far from all - of the difference is Qt 3's rather alpha quality support on Mac, which should be fixed when a stable Qt4-based version of Scribus can be released. -- Craig Ringer
