On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 19:26 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: > (This is offlist, but feel free to copy/reply onlist) > > If you're refering to the switch of certain mobile systems from Gtk to Qt, I > think it's a bad idea to call it a "loss". Our goal is to give software > users freedom. With free versions of Qt, they have freedom. It's nice to > see "our" system being used instead of any other system, and the choice of > Qt over Gtk might indeed highlight some technical shortcomings which could > be addressed in Gtk, but we still "win" when they use free versions of Qt. > > If you're refering to the fact that certain mobile devices have built their > own proprietary systems instead of using Gtk, then I agree that this is a > "loss". >
Ciaran, My post was more about the need of defining the direction where we want to go. We need to find a way to agree on the areas to be priorized for improvement and figure out how to do as _community_, using all our resources. So, if, for example, we set as priority to be a serious option for mobile computing, we need to have a plan for that (I put this as example, surely biased for the news of today and because the componentized idea I like very much :). I'm happy to see that big companies choose free software, though I must admit I'll be happier it they had choosen GNOME :) --The idea of making components from GNOME applications could make possible to have a Qt frontend for these applications-- Cheers, -- Juanjo Marín _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
