Arnold Krille wrote: > On Tuesday 22 December 2009 07:01:14 david wrote: >> sonofzev@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> On Mon Dec 21 19:05 , david sent: >>>> Robert Jonsson wrote: >>>>>> One suggestion (but it may be too big a deal as the KDE folks found >>>>>> out!), go to the more up to date QT4. >>>>> There are no immediate plans to move, Qt3 should be around in distros >>>>> yet for a few years. But eventually we will move. Not the least, >>>>> there's stuff in Qt4 that would be nice to use. :) >>>> Don't rush it. Just keep in mind that there's stuff in Qt4 that doesn't >>>> work that works fine in Qt3, too. >>> TMany that use MusE regularly are more concerned about jackmidi and other >>> features that bring new functionality or interoperability. From my >>> understanding QT4 is more of a cosmetic update and wouldn't necessarily >>> bring more sequencer functionality in. (correct me if I'm wrong) However >>> migrating could require a major overhaul.... >>> >>> Robert and Tim have put in a hell of a lot of work in the past year or so >>> and MusE is functioning really really well. It may look a bit dated.. >>> but that's really not the point is it? >> I'm no fan of eye candy, and that's what I think 90% of the Qt4-based >> KDE4 *is*. I'd rather have my music computer's processor and memory >> being used for audio than eye candy. ;-) > > KDE4 != Qt4 Never said it was. But Qt4 isn't there yet for some very serious non-gui stuff - like printing. > KDE just makes good use of Qt for eye-candy. But other projects make good use > of Qt for very serious non-gui stuff too. > > Porting to Qt4 is a lot of work. But lets be honest, its a work that should > have been done years ago. Qt3 is out of support for several years now, why > anybody still writes apps with it is kind of out of my reach. > 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*. > 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. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
