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Re: [trinity-devel] Devede with qt3?

From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:41:37 -0500
On 21 February 2012 20:34, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote:
>> Question for those who are familiar
>> with Python.
>>
>> I always wanted Devede to run with qt3. I'm looking at the
>> sources for Devede and see that the bulk of the app is
>> python scripts. The dependencies listed on the Devede home
>> page:
>>
>> Mplayer, Mencoder, FFMpeg, DVDAuthor, VCDImager, MKisofs,
>> Python, PyGTK and PyGlade.
>>
>> The graphical interface is through PyGTK and PyGlade. All of
>> the various interface dialogs are UI files, which are XML
>> files.
>>
>> How challenging would porting Devede to qt3 be?
>
> Anybody?
>
> Darrell
>
>


On 21 February 2012 20:34, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote:
>> Question for those who are familiar
>> with Python.
>>
>> I always wanted Devede to run with qt3. I'm looking at the
>> sources for Devede and see that the bulk of the app is
>> python scripts. The dependencies listed on the Devede home
>> page:
>>
>> Mplayer, Mencoder, FFMpeg, DVDAuthor, VCDImager, MKisofs,
>> Python, PyGTK and PyGlade.
>>
>> The graphical interface is through PyGTK and PyGlade. All of
>> the various interface dialogs are UI files, which are XML
>> files.
>>
>> How challenging would porting Devede to qt3 be?
>
> Anybody?
>
> Darrell
>
>

I'm betting pretty difficult. Since basically they are 'wrapping
everything up in pygtk, you'd practically be rewriting the whole app.

I would say not realistic, efforts are better put into developing a
better integrated gtk-qt engine

Calvin