On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 11:53 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: > > Rich Teer wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Stephen Harpster wrote: > > > >> Hey, Google engineers, any chance of getting > >> <a href="http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html";>Google Earth v4</a> > >> ported to OpenSolaris? > > > > Hear, hear! > > > > Or, how about a Java version? Write once, run anywhere, and all that > > jazz... > > And here's me thinking 'Wish they ported to a decent toolkit...', though > my hope was just using GTK+ instead of QT [1]. QT isn't installed by > default on Solaris either.
I think Google folks did a nice job on Google Earth for GNU/Linux. Their applications does not depends on any sort of distribution's permutations and installs all needed libraries in a single user home directory called "google-earth". They do not use any system package and install it as a pure add-on application, self-contained and self-sufficient. That means it doesn't really matter whether QT is pre-installed or not. Their installer looks really simple, slick, fast starting and without any internal system packaging dependencies. I think we are seeing real example on how closed-sourced add-on GUI application for UNIX/Linux should look like to be successful. IMHO Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
