On 29 August 2012 10:13, Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@...> wrote: >> I don't understand this obsession for Qt4+ and KDE4. KDE4 is every time a >> step >> behind GNOME. For this reason I preffer to patch a little the Qt3 to >> support >> glib mainloop and then I will develop various applications based on >> excellent >> libraries provided by GNOME community. Moreover, glib integration is not >> broke Qt3 API, so I don't need to patch any of older KDE3 apps. > > This is a matter of opinion. ;-) I used to program GTK applications, and > in my opinion they are very hard to code and maintain past a certain size > and complexity level. Qt3/4/5 applications on the other hand seem more > scalable, and those libraries provide many useful features in their > respective APIs which were lacking when I last tried the GTK libraries. > >> Minor hack or no, it is ugly. Replacing strings automatically introduces a >> risk to make unwanted changes (which sometimes are translated in strange >> and >> hard to hunt bugs). > > At this point most, of not all, of those bugs have been found and stamped > out. There is no real reason not to use TQt3, with its better > compatibility and continued development, except for personal preference. > :-) > > Tim > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help@... > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > A nice technical document about TQt3, and other developments would be really helpful on the website. I would also like to see our Trinity HCI model on the website.