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Re: QT-GTK and
by David on Wednesday 18/Feb/2004, @07:00

"Many of the advantages of Qt can and will be made irrelevant by Mono anyway."

Funny! Mono is years away from being a complete environment that can be used. Qt is here now. There are also many issues regarding the use of an Intermediate Runtime that Microsoft are just starting to face - Qt is natively compiled. Mono, as a whole, is fairly pointless.

"A theme spec can be used by everyone, including toolkits like Fox, wxWindows, FLTK and so on."

It takes more than a theme spec. There have to be equivalent decisions made for each toolkit - radio buttons, file dialogues etc.

"One little change to GTK could render the hack useless."

Not really. GTK isn't going to change completely overnight.

"See what happens to Qt on the Mac. They have to update the look for each new version of OSX. If they implemented the proper stuff, there would not be this problem."

Well the Mac environment is closed, and Qt is a cross-platform toolkit, so look-and-feel issues are bound to happen. KDE is different from Qt.

"Besides, part of the look and feel is in the other stuff like spacing of words in Menus and so on. How do you proposed to get that fixed."

Well, I'd like to know that as well.

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