22 Dec
2009
22 Dec
'09
3:50 p.m.
Arnold Krille wrote:
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 07:01:14 david wrote:
Never said it was. But Qt4 isn't there yet for some very serious non-gui
stuff - like printing.
sonofzev(a)iinet.net.au wrote:
KDE4 != Qt4 On Mon Dec 21 19:05 , david sent:
I'm no fan of eye candy, and
that's what I think 90% of the Qt4-based
KDE4 *is*. I'd rather have my music computer's processor and memory
being used for audio than eye candy. ;-) Robert Jonsson wrote:
>> One suggestion (but it may be too big a deal as the KDE folks found
>> out!), go to the more up to date QT4.
> There are no immediate plans to move, Qt3 should be around in distros
> yet for a few years. But eventually we will move. Not the least,
> there's stuff in Qt4 that would be nice to use. :)
Don't rush it. Just keep in mind that there's stuff in Qt4 that doesn't
work that works fine in Qt3, too.
TMany that use MusE regularly are more concerned
about jackmidi and other
features that bring new functionality or interoperability. From my
understanding QT4 is more of a cosmetic update and wouldn't necessarily
bring more sequencer functionality in. (correct me if I'm wrong) However
migrating could require a major overhaul....
Robert and Tim have put in a hell of a lot of work in the past year or so
and MusE is functioning really really well. It may look a bit dated..
but that's really not the point is it? KDE just makes good use of Qt for eye-candy. But other
projects make good use
of Qt for very serious non-gui stuff too.
Porting to Qt4 is a lot of work. But lets be honest, its a work that should
have been done years ago. Qt3 is out of support for several years now, why
anybody still writes apps with it is kind of out of my reach.
I know free projects are notoriously short of man-power. But the more you wait
for that porting, the harder it is to find people still knowing about the steps
needed to port. So the longer you wait, the less people you can ask (for free)
about helping you...
Yah. And programmer egos get stroked more by doing something kewl on the
screen than by doing something that makes a program *better*.
And switching to Qt4 is really worth it! Lots more
platform-independent basic
stuff with lots cleaner api. And lots nicer gui stuff:-)
Eye candy.
--
David
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