Re: Re: Qt for GNOME?

[Christoph Burgdorf <christoph burgdorf bvsn org>]

I think Mark didnt really mean to recode Gnome based on QT but to have
the values of GNOME inside the KDE Project.

Am Mittwoch, den 16.07.2008, 17:41 +0200 schrieb Sascha Peilicke:
> Le Wednesday, 16. July 2008 17:18:14, vous avez écrit :
> > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 19:23 +0430, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > > Several blogs reacted on the derStandard.at interview with Marc
> > > Shuttleworth,
> > > who mentioned the possibility for GNOME-3.x to be based on the Qt
> > > framework.
> > I think this is inaccurate, or please help me find where he says so.
> > All I can find in the interview is "Well, I think it would be perfectly
> > possible to deliver the values of GNOME on top of QT...", which is quite
> > right.  I don't see anywhere mentioning GNOME 3 at all.
> >
> > Now I'm sure blogs have taken it as such.  J5 welcomed flames and a
> > thought experiment.  That's fine, and interesting, but I don't think
> > it's fair to say that Mark said so.
> >
> > Note to self: First read all reference material before replying.  I
> > apologize for not doing that.
> 
> I think you're putting more into the word 'mentioned' than I originally 
> intended. I agree with you that he might not be the person to drive or 
> control GNOME, but at least he did hell of a lot for the platform. Because 
> beeing GNOME the standard DE on Ubuntu atracted lots of users, which
> gave feedback, started to do their pygtk experiments (that was exactly the
> way I got in touch with GNOME), etc.