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Re: [trinity-devel] FAQ: Isn't Qt3 obsolete and dead technology?

From: Serghei Amelian <serghei@...>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:39:22 +0200
On Wednesday 23 November 2011 21:31:02 Timothy Pearson wrote:
[...]

> Qt3 is a toolkit, nothing more.  If a toolkit works correctly with the
> latest distributions and already contains the features needed for the
> applications built on it, there is no reason to "upgrade" to a completely
> different toolkit that is missing a number of those features (Qt4).
>
> Remember that KDE3.5.10 is considered obsolete, yet many have seen its
> successor (KDE 4.0) as inferior.  The definition of obsolete varies in the
> FOSS community based on who is applying the term. ;-)
>
> Tim

Actually at this moment I see no reason to port TDE to Qt4. Because Qt3 is 
under our control, we can enhance it in any way we want. For example, dbus 
support can be integraded directly into Qt3.


-- 
Serghei