[maemo-developers] [PMX:#] Re: [maemo-developers] Qt + KDE port

[From: Erik Bågfors]

On 7/13/05, Kate Alhola <kate at katix.org> wrote:
> >> Erik Bågfors <zindar at gmail.com>
> >
> > As long as we make sure that this is a "hack".  What I mean by that is
> > that we do not want to end up in the situation where some linux
> > distributions are today, where you have a mess with both KDE and Gnome
> > and it really confuses new users. No matter how much you want to
> > integrate the two, they just look and behave differently.
> 
> If we really are talking about ORDINARY USERS, not soldiers of GUI war,
> the lest interesting thing is that what toolkit ( Qt / GTK etc ) is
> some application using. I think that if we ask from them, does they
> even know that what toolkit their faworite application uses, they
> dont know and even less care about it.

Exactly! Which is exactly what I was getting at.  

A "ordinary user" will just install the software he finds that fits
his/hers need. He/She doesn't care if it's gtk, qt, fltk, etc. The
problem (at least on desktop linux) is that a KDE app looks and
behaves differently than a Gnome app.  Most of us (that's used linux
for many years) hardly notice that anymore, but buttons are in the
"wrong" place, icons are different, file open dialogs are different
etc.

I have seen this annoy "ordinary users" alot. I think it's much more
sane to stay with one platform/toolkit and try to make it so that a
"ordinary user" doesn't have the need to install anything that's not
from that platform/toolkit.

Here we have a new platform, let's make it great and not add these
kind of inconsistencies.

But, hey, this is just my (and lot's of "ordinary users" opinion) it's
opensource, do whatever you feel like :)

/Erik