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

Dnia 2012-02-23, o godz. 10:51:22
Julian Harnath <julian.harnath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> napisał(a):

> Justin Stressman <jstressman@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
> > It pains me to see this talk about ditching the current API (with its
> > Be nostalgia and sense of nativeness etc) to replace it with Qt.
> 
> I agree. Personally, I would lose any interest in Haiku if it were to 
> replace its own APIs with Qt. If I wanted to use a Qt-based desktop 
> system, I'd just use some KDE Linux.
> Haiku-specific API-additions would probably not be used much at all 
> since most "Haiku"-applications would turn out to be straight ports 
> from Linux. To me, anything that is interesting about Haiku would be 
> lost.
> Just my 2 cents.
> 
I also agree with that. I have QT every day at work and this is not the
environment of my dreams. Abandoning its API is the loss of identity :(
I like Haiku, because it is similar to QNX: fast, small and cohesive as a
whole. After switching to Qt, it will be rather a QT / KDE hybrid Linux 
like system.

Best regards
Dariusz Knociński.

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