On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote: >> > This should be cleared. Are we >> going to port trinity to qt4 or don't. >> > There are users in the IRC channel who ask about this, >> and I don't >> > really know how to respond, since it isn't clear to >> myself. >> > For what I understood: we won't port trinity to Qt4, we >> will add >> > possibility of using qt3 and qt4 together. Is this >> correct? >> >> This is correct. At one time there was a desire to >> port to Qt4, however >> months of solid work showed that Qt4 cannot provide the >> features needed to >> create a fast, efficient desktop geared towards >> mouse/keyboard interaction >> and high on-screen information content. > > Okeydokey, but then what is the purpose of TQt? > You mean TQt, which is pretty much the same as Qt3 but with Q* objects translated to TQ*. What I'd like to know is purporse of tqtinterface. Initially I understood it was created to facilitate porting to qt4, without having to rewrite much of the tdelibs/tdecomponents code. But now, that there are no plans for Qt4 port, what is it needed for, except as compilation dependency? > I would like to see us formally address both questions in the wiki. I admit I remain confused about the whole picture. :( I would like to see a good writeup on the wiki discussing the technical details. > > In any such public discussion we probably want to qualify your Qt4 observations. I have no reason to doubt your technical assessment of Qt4, nor am I qualified, but such statements deserve technical discussion. Possibly some benchmarks too. Otherwise fanboys and self-appointed nannies will raise a ruckus, regardless of the merits of such statements. Not that I care about fanatics, but you know the drill. :)> > BTW, I have seen GTK supporters make similar statements about GTK1 versus GTK2, claiming GTK1 was much faster than GTK2. > > As a side comment, in many ways my Windows for Workgroup 3.11 with the Norton Desktop on my 16 MB 486 machine (still runs!) is faster than any modern desktop environment. I have that same environment cloned on a PI class machine and the system screams. Hardware might improve at 2x the capacity every 18 months, but software seems to get 2x slower. :) > > Darrell > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help@... > Read list messsages on the Web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting >