Re: [Tora-develop] Platform specific Gui / Future Development

[Volker G. <go...@se...>]

Hi everyone,

Am Freitag, 5. November 2004 17:12 schrieb Raj:
> I'm not happy with switching to Java.  While I have mixed feelings about
> qt (and would probably be happier with gtk+), I totally do not think
> Java is the way to go - its slow and unwieldy.  I'd be happy to help
> with TOra extending the current featureset with the same base code.  The
> lack of windows support really does not bother me, I don't touch
> windows.  There is enough software out there that is windows-only that
> having something *nix-only actually makes me feel good :)
> --Raj

Just for my 0,02 Euro...

I would not be happy either if the project was done in java. At the moment=
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more a matter of feelings than hard facts, BUT: I have never seen a java=20
application looking as smooth and native on any system (win, linux) as a=20
really native application (be it qt - I know that from unix, win and mac -=
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or gtk+ - never seen on win or mac). One always 'sees' the difference.

I personally would prefer Qt as first choice. I don't think there are too=20
much license issues out there. There are GPL compliant free versions for=20
X11 and Mac out there. And there is a Qt book with a bundle CD containing=20
Qt 3.2.something allowing one to develop open source software, if I=20
interpret=20
http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2004-01/thread01064-0.html=20
correctly. Anyway, I think, the new project would not prohibit linking=20
against a commercial Qt version - so anyone could buy a Qt license and=20
link himself.

BTW: For the native Mac look'n'feel: I cannot see any difference from=20
qt-mac-free-3.3.3 to other applications on Panther.


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Best regards

Volker G=F6tz

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