Darrell Anderson wrote: >>> I don't think we should go much farther in the >> investigation: the >>> dependency of kwriteconfig on kdelibs brings automatic >> dependency on X >>> libraries even if it is a console program. >> Good point. That is one reason I like Qt4 much beter than Qt3. >> For applications that don't need X, you don't pull that stuff in. >> Qt3 is a single monolithic library with everything, while Qt4 is a >> collection of 21 libraries. For something like kwriteconfig, it >> would probably only need libQtCore. > > Thanks to both. > > For you folks more experienced with coding TDE and Qt3, are there any > clever ways to eliminate the overhead with the non X commands? Seems > that would be more efficient and shave a few micro/millisecond > response times here and there, especially for older hardware. :) I doubt it. Porting from Qt3 to Qt4 is non-trivial, but the amount of work depends on the program. There's no way to eliminate X as long as Qt3 is used. -- Bruce