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Is Gnome dead?Is Gnome dead?Posted Oct 11, 2009 8:01 UTC (Sun) by epa (subscriber, #39769)In reply to: Is Gnome dead? by Kit Parent article: Nokia ports Qt to Maemo 5 (the Inquirer)
Mark Shuttleworth has suggested that GNOME itself switch to Qt (instead of GTK+), which on the face of it doesn't sound like a bad idea.
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Is Gnome dead? Posted Oct 11, 2009 10:04 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
You are overstating what he said and besides it would involve throwing away the very core of GNOME. If it doesn't sound like a bad idea, how about KDE switching to using GTK? Does that sound like a good idea as well? I am curious to understand why people think it is reasonable.
Is Gnome dead? Posted Oct 11, 2009 14:52 UTC (Sun) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458) [Link] Near as I can tell, Ubuntu could switch to QT by a simple mv Ubuntu Gubuntu; mv Kubuntu Ubuntu. Sure, in order to reduce the pain, they'd probably do a lot of work with making themes match, tweaking a few apps to look more like their GTK workalike, maybe even porting a few common apps to QT, etc., but it would not be nearly as difficult as switching KDE to using a different toolkit. I don't think it will happen, just saying that the option actually exists.
Is Gnome dead? Posted Oct 11, 2009 20:50 UTC (Sun) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
Say you're a airplane transport company with your own support staff to
keep the planes in working condition. Going from eg a propellor plane to a jet would mean big changes, but at least it'd be worth it. Going back to balloons, on the other hand, is bad in any possible way... :D
Is Gnome dead? Posted Oct 11, 2009 21:58 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
It isn't mv X Y but rm -rf X if you throw away GTK. I assume noone thinks the plan is really feasible at all. Otherwise those advocating for it would have done it or atleast taken some real steps.
Is Gnome dead? Posted Oct 12, 2009 13:43 UTC (Mon) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]
I think the problem isn't defined clearly enough to be discussed. GTK and QT
are a collection of different things. GTK includes a rendering framework which is pluggable, and indeed there is a QT engine plugin, or at least there used to be). I used it for a little while as I tend to prefer GNOME and GTK applications to KDE ones but I prefer the appearance and speed of QT's rendering. It proved to not be particularly stable / didn't play well with certain themes etc. which I suppose was inevitable. But, should there be a decision for GNOME to migrate to QT, it might be a first step.
Is Gnome dead? Posted Oct 12, 2009 20:21 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
The important thing for Gnome is not the toolkit, but the applications.
That is the most important thing for any platform and is why KDE4 crapped out
So unless you want to have the Ubuntu desktop be a completely unusable for
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