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Re: scribus
by David Johnson on Monday 05/Apr/2004, @11:13

If Scribus is to be "kdeified", the current Qt-only interface should still remain as an option. An application that doesn't really need kdelibs shouldn't make it a dependency for people who don't use KDE. Think of AbiWord which can be built with or without Gnome, as an example. A "--with-kde" option during configure would be nice, and even used by default if KDE was detected. But I get the impression that Scribus is meant to be a standalone application regardless of your desktop.

I have an application of my own that is Qt-only, and I've thought on this issue for several years. Since it always annoys me to have to "suck in" several megabytes of Gnome libraries to run a single Gnome application like Dia, why should I annoy my Gnome users by making them suck in several megabytes of KDE libraries? I also have many Windows and Mac users, and making them suck in Cygwin, Fink, and/or XFree86 is going to scare a lot of them away.

I understand both sides of the issue, and I am not advocating non-integration with KDE. But I would like people to know that there's another viewpoint.

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