Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-21 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday 17 September 2014 20:19:27 Knoll Lars wrote: It's supposed to mean that you can modify Qt's source code without having to release the changes. I agree that the text is not clear enough and it should be somehow changed. Could you ask that be updated? Or use two different ways to

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-21 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Sunday 21 September 2014 10:08:09 Thiago Macieira wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2014 20:19:27 Knoll Lars wrote: It's supposed to mean that you can modify Qt's source code without having to release the changes. I agree that the text is not clear enough and it should be somehow changed.

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-19 Thread BogDan
Your sentence is correct as long as the user *ships* qt libs alongside his apps! If the application uses system libraries, then IMHO, is not his responsibility to provide the sources for Qt. Right. And when using Ministro, it's the Ministro packager's responsibility to provide the sources.

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-19 Thread Sze Howe Koh
I enjoy the new look and the fluidity of the site. It conveys a sense of what developers can achieve graphically with the technology available in the Qt framework. One thing I feel that could be improved is http://www.qt.io/product/ -- it gives me the impression that Qt is a commercial-only

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-18 Thread Jason McDonald
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Kuba Ober k...@mareimbrium.org wrote: My only worry is that it seems like an idle exercise. Why spend all this time doing something that, ultimately, serves no real purpose? Qt’s image ultimately depends on the quality of the code and the documentation that

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-18 Thread BogDan
- Original Message - From: Thiago Macieira thiago.macie...@intel.com On Wednesday 17 September 2014 14:06:15 André Somers wrote: Absolutely. FOSS users have, by definition, every right to modify the source code. So yes, the current qt.io site is very misleading there. They just

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-18 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Thursday 18 September 2014 04:31:20 BogDan wrote: Your sentence is correct as long as the user *ships* qt libs alongside his apps! If the application uses system libraries, then IMHO, is not his responsibility to provide the sources for Qt. Right. And when using Ministro, it's the Ministro

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-17 Thread Olivier Goffart
On Tuesday 16 September 2014 16:51:04 Mark Gaiser wrote: I like the site! It looks clear and to the point imho. But i kinda fail to see the point in having - yet another - domain for Qt. I mean, we've had: - Trolltech - qt.nokia... - qt.digia... - qt-project and now we have qt.io. Yes,

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-17 Thread Stanislav Baiduzhyi
On Wednesday 17 September 2014 08:55:18 Olivier Goffart wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2014 16:51:04 Mark Gaiser wrote: I like the site! It looks clear and to the point imho. But i kinda fail to see the point in having - yet another - domain for Qt. I mean, we've had: - Trolltech -

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-17 Thread Milian Wolff
On Tuesday 16 September 2014 12:11:26 Knoll Lars wrote: Hi everybody, I’m happy to tell you that we’re making significant progress towards the new unified web page that I’ve first been talking about at the contributor summit. We just launched the first stage of it on http://qt.io. For now

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-17 Thread André Somers
Milian Wolff schreef op 17-9-2014 12:38: On Tuesday 16 September 2014 12:11:26 Knoll Lars wrote: Hi everybody, I’m happy to tell you that we’re making significant progress towards the new unified web page that I’ve first been talking about at the contributor summit. We just launched the

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-17 Thread Milian Wolff
On Wednesday 17 September 2014 13:29:50 André Somers wrote: Milian Wolff schreef op 17-9-2014 12:38: On Tuesday 16 September 2014 12:11:26 Knoll Lars wrote: Hi everybody, I’m happy to tell you that we’re making significant progress towards the new unified web page that I’ve first been

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-17 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday 17 September 2014 14:06:15 André Somers wrote: Absolutely. FOSS users have, by definition, every right to modify the source code. So yes, the current qt.io site is very misleading there. They just don't have the right to publish closed source software based on those modified

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-17 Thread André Somers
Op 17 sep. 2014 om 18:05 heeft Thiago Macieira thiago.macie...@intel.com het volgende geschreven: On Wednesday 17 September 2014 14:06:15 André Somers wrote: Absolutely. FOSS users have, by definition, every right to modify the source code. So yes, the current qt.io site is very

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-17 Thread Kuba Ober
On Sep 16, 2014, at 8:11 AM, Knoll Lars lars.kn...@digia.com wrote: Hi everybody, I’m happy to tell you that we’re making significant progress towards the new unified web page that I’ve first been talking about at the contributor summit. We just launched the first stage of it on

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-17 Thread Kuba Ober
On Sep 17, 2014, at 6:38 AM, Milian Wolff milian.wo...@kdab.com wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2014 12:11:26 Knoll Lars wrote: Hi everybody, I’m happy to tell you that we’re making significant progress towards the new unified web page that I’ve first been talking about at the contributor

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-17 Thread Knoll Lars
On 17/09/14 20:00, André Somers an...@familiesomers.nl wrote: Op 17 sep. 2014 om 18:05 heeft Thiago Macieira thiago.macie...@intel.com het volgende geschreven: On Wednesday 17 September 2014 14:06:15 André Somers wrote: Absolutely. FOSS users have, by definition, every right to modify the

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-17 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday 17 September 2014 20:19:27 Knoll Lars wrote: It's supposed to mean that you can modify Qt's source code without having to release the changes. I agree that the text is not clear enough and it should be somehow changed. Right. The point isn't the modify, it's the release the

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-17 Thread Lorn Potter
On 18/09/14 05:09, Kuba Ober wrote: One of the reasons I loath to recommend to the management to go back to paying for Qt licenses is that we’d have been sponsoring what amounts to 2 or 3 major rebrandings and “revamps”, and it seems like throwing money down the drain. As a user, I want

[Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-16 Thread Knoll Lars
Hi everybody, I’m happy to tell you that we’re making significant progress towards the new unified web page that I’ve first been talking about at the contributor summit. We just launched the first stage of it on http://qt.io. For now qt.digia.com is going to redirect to it. I hope you will like

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-16 Thread Christoph Feck
On Tuesday 16 September 2014 14:11:26 Knoll Lars wrote: In addition, we also now have a new company name for the Qt part of Digia. It’s simply ‘The Qt Company’. How boring! But you can rename the company hundred times... For me, it will always be The Trolls™ ;) Christoph Feck (kdepepo)

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-16 Thread Mark Gaiser
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Knoll Lars lars.kn...@digia.com wrote: Hi everybody, I’m happy to tell you that we’re making significant progress towards the new unified web page that I’ve first been talking about at the contributor summit. We just launched the first stage of it on

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-16 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday 16 September 2014 16:51:04 Mark Gaiser wrote: But i kinda fail to see the point in having - yet another - domain for Qt. I mean, we've had: - Trolltech - qt.nokia... - qt.digia... - qt-project and now we have qt.io. Yes, it's a nice short domain, but having domain changes every

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-16 Thread Knoll Lars
On 16/09/14 16:51, Mark Gaiser mark...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Knoll Lars lars.kn...@digia.com wrote: Hi everybody, I’m happy to tell you that we’re making significant progress towards the new unified web page that I’ve first been talking about at the contributor

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-16 Thread Andre Somers
On 16-9-2014 20:50, Knoll Lars wrote: On 16/09/14 16:51, Mark Gaiser mark...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Knoll Lars lars.kn...@digia.com wrote: Hi everybody, I’m happy to tell you that we’re making significant progress towards the new unified web page that I’ve first

Re: [Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

2014-09-16 Thread Mandeep Sandhu
What was wrong with qt-project in that respect? And what is the status of that site (and project) now then? It sounds a bit like the xkcd standards comic [1]: adding a new domain to unite all the information from the existing ones... Lol. The elusive one-ring-to-rule-em-all! That xkcd is