31 Jul
2012
31 Jul
'12
8:01 p.m.
On 07/31/2012 10:58 AM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
I'm not arguing that Qt4 is bad -- I don't think it is, there are a couple of
apps I have that must have it (keepassx for one). However, give the choice, I
prefer Qt3 apps due to the look and feel (and if column handling is at issue
-- the Qt3 apps work..)
Well, to be fair, this is where I must qualify my answer. "It does everything
I need it to do :)" Which means it opens and runs without crashing. (after
you load the modules) If there are new features, then I don't miss them :)
What is it that the Qt3 based rosegarden in the GIT tree doesn't do?
I mean I'm not stuck on it and if the upstream version will work fine (and
look right), then I don't have any heartache over using it.
What does the new one do that the old one doesn't -- other than not popping up
the 'New version available dialog' on start each time?
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>3. It does NOT require Qt4.
I do not
see this as a bad thing. I think arguing that using Qt4 over
Qt3 is not enough to keep a program around. A toolkit is simple what
the program utilizes to display things, it doesn't have much to do
with functionality... which leads to my next point.
>4. It
works very well in its current form.
It doesn't! it is not up to scratch with
the current rosegarden
project. It's a dead standstill from where they were 4 years ago. This
is sort along the lines of the KWin thing, except there is no huff and
puff about depending upon KDE4. In fact, we will be depending on Qt4
eventually I see it as even less of an issue. >It's not a question of why do we still
sunport it - there has been almost no
>support required.
>
>The question is: "When should we stop supporting it?"
>
>Answer: "When a core library change breaks the rosegarden GIT tree API/whatever
>and where the amount of support required exceeds what someone is willing to do
>to preserve it in its current form and decides to port the upstream version to
>TDE..."
Well that's another thing... current Rosegarden doesn't
need to be
ported to TDE. it already works great in TDE! I use it frequently for
my home studio.
>This is
one of those -- you don't just run out an buy another dishwasher for the
>heck of it things,.... you wait until the one you have breaks and the cost of
>repair exceeds the cost of a new one :)
Except that we are not talking about
physical hunks of metal and
wiring which cost hundreds of dollars to replace. We are talking about
something along the lines of
apt-get remove rosegarden-trinity
apt-get install rosegarden
Calvin