Re: [LAU] [ANN] MusE 1.0

From: Hartmut Noack <zettberlin@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Dec 22 2009 - 23:52:21 EET

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david schrieb:
> Arnold Krille wrote:
>> I know free projects are notoriously short of man-power. But the more you wait
>> for that porting, the harder it is to find people still knowing about the steps
>> needed to port. So the longer you wait, the less people you can ask (for free)
>> about helping you...
>
> Yah. And programmer egos get stroked more by doing something kewl on the
> screen than by doing something that makes a program *better*.

I do not think, that such behaviour is related to the question whether
to switch to a recent version/generation of a toolkit or not. Like it or
not: if you stick with a toolkit, that is effectively abandoned by its
makers, you are programming a dinosaur.

Those, who dislike the way QT is evolving, are welcome to fork QT3, call
it FreeCuteClassic or whatever camel-case-name they like and maintain it
forever.
But I do not see such efforts being made and thus any QT3-app is
effectively outdated.

>> And switching to Qt4 is really worth it! Lots more platform-independent basic
>> stuff with lots cleaner api. And lots nicer gui stuff:-)
>
> Eye candy.
>

1: as Arnold, who knows a good deal about, has stated before: QT4 may
(godforbid, the end is nigh!!!) look more "modern" "cute" or whatever.
But it comes with lots of improvements on a lower level also.
2: If a GUI looks crummy and oldish but works OK, I prefer it over a
sweet looking one, that does not work OK. But I do not see where the
problem with QT4 may be. If I look at Qtractor or Traverso I cannot find
any problems that seem related to its GUI-Toolkit. OK, they look a bit
smoother and more say... polished as their QT3-brothers but not
everybody would call this a problem....

I am not that enthusiastic also about the extra-efforts of switching,
that lags the development of apps like Rosegarden but I think, it is
indeed neccessary to stay up to date in the evolution of GNU...
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