9:28 a.m.
FYI: Nokia wants to buy Trolltech:
http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2008-01-28.4605...
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9:32 a.m.
On Jan 28, 2008 9:28 AM, Jos Vos <jos(a)xos.nl> wrote:
FYI: Nokia wants to buy Trolltech:
http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2008-01-28.4605...
I think it is past-tense now, http://trolltech.com/28012008/28012008
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12:50 p.m.
On 2008-01-28, 15:32 GMT, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On Jan 28, 2008 9:28 AM, Jos Vos <jos(a)xos.nl> wrote:
>
> FYI: Nokia wants to buy Trolltech:
>
> http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements\
> /press.2008-01-28.4605718236
I think it is past-tense now, http://trolltech.com/28012008/28012008
Isn't this weird -- what about their using Gnome in Maemo?
Matěj
1:16 p.m.
On Jan 28, 2008 1:50 PM, Matej Cepl <mcepl(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 2008-01-28, 15:32 GMT, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2008 9:28 AM, Jos Vos <jos(a)xos.nl> wrote:
>>
>> FYI: Nokia wants to buy Trolltech:
>>
>> http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements\
>> /press.2008-01-28.4605718236
>
> I think it is past-tense now, http://trolltech.com/28012008/28012008
Isn't this weird -- what about their using Gnome in Maemo?
Not to knock Gnome or GTK+, but QT is a more robust framework. QT in
C++ is easier to program than GTK+ in C. QT has alot of constructs in
it for data containers and multithreading, which if I understand
correctly, are better than GTK+ on a technical standpoint. From a
desktop perspective, things like application resizing and other
graphical aspects 'perform better' than GTK+ programs. I'm sure
Benjamin Kreuter is going to argue the flexibility of KParts as well.
I think Nokia either might just be hedging their bets, or actually
plan on using a QT framework for something.
-Yaakov
2:14 p.m.
On Monday 28 January 2008 14:16:11 Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
Not to knock Gnome or GTK+, but QT is a more robust framework. QT
in
C++ is easier to program than GTK+ in C. QT has alot of constructs in
it for data containers and multithreading, which if I understand
correctly, are better than GTK+ on a technical standpoint.
That much is true. The signals/slots mechanism is thread safe, and there is a
mutex mechanism that is pretty easy to use. Also, Qt4 has STL support, so
you can use standard containers and algorithms in an application (other
toolkits will probably do this soon also; I know wxWidgets is moving in that
direction).
From a
desktop perspective, things like application resizing and other
graphical aspects 'perform better' than GTK+ programs. I'm sure
Benjamin Kreuter is going to argue the flexibility of KParts as well.
I've been trying to stay as far away from that topic as possible, in the hopes
of avoiding a massive flamewar, but yes, KParts is one of the better OLE
systems out there. However, KParts is not a Trolltech product, it is just
related to it because the people who wrote KParts were using Qt. Nokia
probably won't be buying the KDE project.
-- Benjamin Kreuter
3:07 p.m.
On Jan 28, 2008 1:16 PM, Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 28, 2008 1:50 PM, Matej Cepl <mcepl(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On 2008-01-28, 15:32 GMT, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On Jan 28, 2008 9:28 AM, Jos Vos <jos(a)xos.nl> wrote:
> >>
> >> FYI: Nokia wants to buy Trolltech:
> >>
> >> http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements\
> >> /press.2008-01-28.4605718236
> >
> > I think it is past-tense now, http://trolltech.com/28012008/28012008
>
> Isn't this weird -- what about their using Gnome in Maemo?
Not to knock Gnome or GTK+, but QT is a more robust framework. QT in
C++ is easier to program than GTK+ in C. QT has alot of constructs in
it for data containers and multithreading, which if I understand
correctly, are better than GTK+ on a technical standpoint. From a
desktop perspective, things like application resizing and other
graphical aspects 'perform better' than GTK+ programs. I'm sure
Benjamin Kreuter is going to argue the flexibility of KParts as well.
I think Nokia either might just be hedging their bets, or actually
plan on using a QT framework for something.
-Yaakov
Also, Qt is _alot_ more than a GUI toolkit. As far as I understand,
Gtk+ is just a GUI toolkit
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3:13 p.m.
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 15:07 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Also, Qt is _alot_ more than a GUI toolkit. As far as I understand,
Gtk+ is just a GUI toolkit
Is this discussion really relevant to this list?
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9:44 a.m.
On Monday 28 January 2008 10:28:39 Jos Vos wrote:
FYI: Nokia wants to buy Trolltech:
http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2008-01-28.460571
8236
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Cool, at least they will continue open source licensing. This could wind up
being a net gain for us -- maybe Nokia's developers could bring some
interesting ideas into Qt.
-- Ben
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