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




I try to stay out of these conversations since I have not actually contributed 
any code to Haiku, and I have never used QT in any of my projects (because I 
don't like it).
I don't like QT because its humongous and ugly and slow. When I worked at 
Worldgate Communications, our product used QT for all its graphics (aside from 
the actual video streams), and it sucked, our GUI was so slow that it was 
almost unusable, because it was running on QT. I just don't like QT. I take 
issue with most graphical systems actually, among the good ones are the Linux 
framebuffer, SDL, Haiku's GUI.


Most of the reason I am interested in Haiku is its graphical system, just 
because it isn't X, and doesn't rely on GTK or QT or any crap like that. If 
Haiku used QT, it would lose much of its appeal to me. Not all appeal, but a 
lot of it.


QT is a giant, but not one that you can use to stand on its shoulders and reach 
higher, just a fat ugly one that takes up too much space.

--PHil


  I have been using QT applications on Haiku for some time now, even the 
qupzilla browser. Slow ? I haven't noticed any perceptible change in 
responsiveness between the native guis and the qt gui. In fact qupzilla 
completely blows webpositive out of the water in terms of performance.Most of 
this is due to feature completeness, but I use it becuase its more capable. 
It's just a bit crashy. the whole QT intall is 25mb, thats not very "fat" as it 
were imho. 

????


Sean

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