GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Posted Dec 13, 2005 23:15 UTC (Tue) by mepr (guest, #4819)
In reply to: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition by cventers
Parent article: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

You have put your finger on maybe the most relevant reason why a corporate, closed project would choose gtk over qt, the issue of releasing software packages for public use. Using QT means every time the c++ libraries go through another abi incompatability, the packages relying on that abi have to be rebuilt and rereleased. So you have redhat, ubuntu, suse, debian as probably the 4 most popular linux desktop packages, and none of them guarantee abi compatibility amongst themselves at any time. I upgraded my ubuntu install to breezy, and now flash is half broke, where by half broke I mean any given flash app has a 50/50 chance of working. And macromedia is one of the more supportive companies, as far as client, desktop, consumer software.

Welcome to library dependency hell.