Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 27, 2003 09:09 PM
GTK is a horrid toolkit compared to something like Qt. I'm sure we'll have Mono (it looks fairly good), but that won't be ready for god knows how long, not to mention the issues it has with Wine and such like. The supposed licensing issues are BS. You can use a variety of open source licenses. If you're making full commercial software (and looking for some strict ROI) paying for a Qt license makes sense, and it is actually what people want. KDE also has the marvellous Kiosk framework for thin clients and cut-down machines. If they use KDE they will already know this. Ximian have talked about something similar - and it is proprietary, which means Ximian desktop everywhere. We're not off to a good start are we?
The only reason for using Ximian is the integration Open Office has with the desktop environment. Gnome as a desktop now looks very spartan and just doesn't have the power of KDE at all, particularly on the development side.
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Not A lot of Point Really - Lock in to Ximian?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 27, 2003 09:09 PMThe only reason for using Ximian is the integration Open Office has with the desktop environment. Gnome as a desktop now looks very spartan and just doesn't have the power of KDE at all, particularly on the development side.
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