Re: GNOME Office list, and Sun/AbiWord

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 06:25:53 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
> To: pseelig@mail.Uni-Mainz.de
> Cc: Torsten Schulz <Torsten.Schulz@germany.sun.com>,
>      gnome-office-list@gnome.org, gnome-devel-list@gnome.org,
>      gnome-hackers@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: GNOME Office list, and Sun/AbiWord
> 
> > Qt/KDE advocate, i was wondering from a technological point of view
> > why for C++ based (right, isn't it?) StarOffice, Sun/Ex-StarDivision
> > didn't focus on Qt which is already a very advanced, C++ based, cross
> > platform toolkit?  Wouldn't that have been a natural choice?
> 
> Star Office predates Qt. Its old enough that when they did their first talk
> about the Linux port they were doing comparisons with OS/2


I'm assuming that they might roll in some of their UI features into gtk?

	sri