KDE-LiveCD: gparted or qtparted?

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 05:11:56 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 23:33 +0200, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> We (KDE-SIG) want to include one of these partitionin tools.
> qtparted would be the best choice because it is qt. But personally I've
> only used gparted the last time (years). For me it was working better.
> 
> Also the described functionality differs:
> gparted: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php
> qtparted: http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/features.en.html
> 
> So the question here is: Are there good reasons for choosing qtparted
> instead of gparted? Or is gtparted equal in functionality?
> 

1. gparted works better. (Though in qtparted's defense, it's been a
while since I tested it)
2. Most rescue CD's use gtparted so people will most likely be
accustomed to its UI.
3. gtk-qt should close the look-and-feel gap.

- Gilboa

 




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