11 Feb
2012
11 Feb
'12
11:50 p.m.
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Timothy Pearson
<kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net> wrote:
Ok, another question: if I use and compile against TQt3, do I still
need tqtinterface? Or can I drop it?
I'm asking it as a packager for archlinux. I'd like to minimize the
dependency chain that is needed to obtain working tdebase.
This is one of the things I don't like about kde4. You need a lot of
(in my opinion) libraries, and underlaying components in order to get
working desktop.
For me, it would be optimal to have only qt3 and tdelibs (+ some minor
things like dbus-tqt) in order to be able build/use tdebase. That
would require some sort of pull-in/replacement of arts (which is my
opinion a strange creation, and should be replaced/segmented at some
point, because it tries to do too many things together) and other
works, which I cannot even image atm, since I'm not familiar with
trinity architecture enough.
tqtinterface is here to stay. It still abstracts a few niggling problems
with Qt3/TQt3 and provides flexibility when dealing with future Qt3
updates/changes.
Tim
On Thu,
Feb 9, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Darrell Anderson
<humanreadable(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
It currently allows you to select Qt3 or TQt3. Without it the TQt3 port
would not have been possible.
Tim
> > 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.
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?