Re: Enlightenment, WindowMaker, AfterStep

Jeff Wheeler (jwheeler@toldyouso.com)
Thu, 7 May 1998 23:10:33 -0400 (EDT) 

As I understand, the licensing of QT is also a big issue.  Anything you
develop for in house use that builds upon QT or requires any of its
libraries must be made available to the QT authors, as I understand.  Very
restrictive compared to the GPL.  I think this will be the biggest
limiting factor in apps being developed for QT.

Jeff Wheeler  (JW3069)                   http://www.toldyouso.com/~jwheeler
Systems Administrator                     "Every time I've built character,
Told You So Consulting                         I've regretted it." - Calvin

On Fri, 8 May 1998, Scott Stone wrote:

> On Fri, 8 May 1998, Dirk Ertner wrote:
> 
> > GTK: To undeveloped ... I fear somehow, that GTK will almost never really
> > come to great honours ... I simply see some nice OSes (like the GNU and
> > JAVA ones) which may be more elegant than Linux, but don't have the dev
> > power ... 
> 
> Actually, GTK+ v1.0 was just released.  Nice toolkit.  QT has some serious
> limitations, like the inability to display Japanese or other 2-byte
> characters (or to even change the font foundry at all), and its reliance
> on C++... coding things in C++ makes them slower than if you code in
> straight C, and C++ libs like qt aren't compatible with straight C.
> 
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