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Re: All of Adobe 2 Qt
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @18:32

> How about porting all Adobe tools (including Dreaweaver) to Qt?

Since it's closed source then of course Adobe would have to do that. Supposedly there was work in progress to port Dreamweaver to Linux a year or two ago. Where is it and where is the hype? Reading things like this are distressing to me personally. Quanta Plus is here _now_, already native KDE, is already superior for coding like PHP and already has a superior rendering engine with KHTML. Currently development work is being done to make a new generation visual mode, integrate with the KDevelop framework and enhance other capabilities like scripting with Kommander. It also has a fully DTD compliant markup engine and manages XML DTDs on the fly. One of the goals for KDE 4 is to manage XML with XSLT on the fly. All the feedback I've gotten from people who have used Dreamweaver and Quanta is that there are less and less reasons to use Dreamweaver. Quanta is not targetting a feature for feature replacement but is targetting a new generation tool with a goal of nothing less than being the best.

If you can get software that is free as in freedom and free as in beer and it is deeply native KDE, mature and based on a more advanced architecture would you prefer a commercial product? Since Quanta uses sponsored development a contribution of a lot less than the retail cost of Dreamweaver can go a long way to helping to make sure that when (if) it finally shows up on Linux you have no reason left to downgrade.

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Re: All of Adobe 2 Qt
by Manuel Valladares on Wednesday 29/Jun/2005, @01:45

Hello Eric,
Any plans to port Quanta to Windows and/or Mac?

I think it would be a very good idea to expand the 'market' of the program, and now with the GPL version of the Qt it would be possible to offer it for free.

I don't know how hard it will be because it probably has many KDE dependencies.

Thanks for supporting such a great software,
Manuel

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