This is a good interview with the KDE/LyX founder. I include a quote below for those not inclined to look up the URL. http://www.linux-center.org/articles/9809/interview.html Gael: What do you like/dislike in Gnome? What do you think of the Gtk+ widgets and would you have used them if they had existed at the beginning of the KDE project? Did the Gnome/KDE war affect you? Matthias: Gtk+ is an impressive and very complete toolkit. If only it was written in C++, the decision between Qt and Gtk would have been really hard. As it is now, Qt programming is much easier, requires less code and feels more natural. And Qt is much better documented. I know about the C++ wrapper for gtk, of course, but a thin wrapper can never compete with a true class library. Regarding Gnome: Since everything a KDE developer says about Gnome in public is interpreted as bashing, I should rather be quiet. Anyways, there is nothing like a Gnome/KDE war, at least not among the developers. Developers usually respect everybody, who actually makes his hands dirty and writes source code. Anyways, the flame wars really made me sort of sad, destroying my belief that there actually is or was something like a linux-community. It's not just KDE, it's everything. Announce for instance that you wrote a new texteditor. People will flame you that you did not improve emacs instead. Others will start to argue that vi has a similar mode and here we go. Did you ever read a posting from an emacs or vim developer bashing the other one? Or announce that you wrote a LaTeX frontend. People will flame you that their current way of writing TeX is better, more powerful, more unix-like, etc. Why? Many linux users out there seem to believe that authors of free software want to force them to use the new stuff exclusively. That's nonsense. If you like some software, use it, if not, use something else. Why is that so hard to understand for many linux fans? I have no idea. Anyways, it's getting slightly better, so there is some hope. Nowadays people can even ask technical questions about KDE in a general linux newsgroup and get, well, a technical answer instead of flaming. Personally, I do not read linux newsgroups any longer. Real development or end user support happens in mailing list that provide a much better signal/noise ratio. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
