On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:18:45 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:07:18PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > >> It's a shame that people still think of this as a concern: For > >> the vast majority of people, I'd suggest that using GTK-apps or > >> QT-apps in mutual exclusion is a serious case of premature > >> optimisation and such people are missing out on some truly > >> great software. > > > > Unfortunately, while there are lots of GTK-based applications > > that don't necessarily require Gnome, or can be built to not > > require Gnome, the same thing cannot be said for QT-based > > applications. I have never found that QT has wide acceptance > > outside the KDE community. Exceptions are applications like > > scribus, but those are few and far between. > > And now > > $ ldd googleearth-bin | grep q > libqt-mt.so.3 => /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 (0xa6d84000) > libqui.so.1 => /usr/lib/libqui.so.1 (0xa6d4a000) Whereas the installer is a GTK app. Goes to show that you will always encounter both toolkits on the modern desktop. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
