11 Feb
2012
11 Feb
'12
11:29 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Darrell Anderson
<humanreadable(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Okeydokey, but then what is the purpose of TQt?
You mean TQt, which is pretty much the same as Qt3 but with Q* objects
translated to TQ*.
What I'd like to know is purporse of tqtinterface.
Initially I understood it was created to facilitate porting to qt4,
without having to rewrite much of the tdelibs/tdecomponents code. But
now, that there are no plans for Qt4 port, what is it needed for,
except as compilation dependency?
This should be cleared. Are we
going to port
trinity to qt4 or don't.
There are users in the IRC channel who ask about
this,
and I don't
really know how to respond, since it isn't
clear to
myself.
For what I understood: we won't port trinity
to Qt4, we
will add
possibility of using qt3 and qt4 together. Is
this
correct?
This is correct. At one time there was a desire to
port to Qt4, however
months of solid work showed that Qt4 cannot provide the
features needed to
create a fast, efficient desktop geared towards
mouse/keyboard interaction
and high on-screen information content. I would like to see us formally address both questions
in the wiki. I admit I remain confused about the whole picture. :( I would like to see a
good writeup on the wiki discussing the technical details.
In any such public discussion we probably want to qualify your Qt4 observations. I have
no reason to doubt your technical assessment of Qt4, nor am I qualified, but such
statements deserve technical discussion. Possibly some benchmarks too. Otherwise fanboys
and self-appointed nannies will raise a ruckus, regardless of the merits of such
statements. Not that I care about fanatics, but you know the drill. :)>
BTW, I have seen GTK supporters make similar
statements about GTK1 versus GTK2, claiming GTK1 was much faster than GTK2.
As a side comment, in many ways my Windows for Workgroup 3.11 with the Norton Desktop on
my 16 MB 486 machine (still runs!) is faster than any modern desktop environment. I have
that same environment cloned on a PI class machine and the system screams. Hardware might
improve at 2x the capacity every 18 months, but software seems to get 2x slower. :)
Darrell
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