[haiku-development] Re: Haiku, Qt and apps, oh my!

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:48:49 +0100

On 2009-03-28 at 01:25:45 [+0100], Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle
> > 1. Since Qt (by Trolltech/Nokia) is now LGPL, what about a port of Qt to 
> > run
> > on Haiku? I thought about this a while ago. Would it be beneficial? I 
> > could
> > take on this task.
> 
> In my opinion porting such widget frameworks is just an invitation for
> a bunch of sub-par ports of Linux software. I don't want to see Haiku
> become the equivalent of another Linux distro. Therefore I think it is
> better to have native apps, and ports should only be used to tide us
> over. I think one of the major problems with Linux is having too many
> options and therefore no consistency. The whole GTK/Qt/Motif/etc GUI
> thing is just one example of many.

IMHO, Qt is a must-have. It's a pretty solid API -- definitely better than 
some parts of the Be API (like my "favorite", the interface kit) -- and by 
far more complete.

I have no illusions that the "tiding us over" with ports is a temporary state 
only. I believe that having at least one or two of the major toolkits 
available on Haiku is simply a necessity.

CU, Ingo

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