[haiku-development] Re: R1/a4 initial planning

Quoth Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Le 23/02/2012 06:00, Ingo Weinhold a écrit :
...
>> I think a niche for Haiku is to be a well-integrated open source OS
>> that doesn't get in the user's way.
...
> I'm wondering what Qt would bring us ? Maybe some apps like KOffice and 
> Arora web browser. But I guess we would end up running KDE (the window 
> manager that starts in more time than Haiku needs to boot) ?

I have no hard data on it, but my perception of the Haiku graphic
interface is that it's light weight.  The API is limited but practical
and easy to work with, and the resulting applications look nice without
spending much of their resources on user interface.

Is anyone these days running Haiku in minimum resource environments,
is there any basis for comparing performance with Qt etc.?  I would
have guessed that this is part of Haiku's natural niche, and I'd worry
that this advantage would be lost altogether if it became an `integrator'
platform.

Maybe our weakness is sometimes also be our natural advantage, when
the software author has little spare time to add more features.

        Donn

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