Linked by Andrew Youll on Sat 6th Aug 2005 08:30 UTC, submitted by tbutler
In a series of articles (part I, part II) during the month of July, OfB's Timothy R. Butler explained why he felt that KDE needed to move beyond the Qt toolkit it uses as a foundation. In that series, he asserted that the licensing of Qt is becoming a stumbling block to the desktop's adoption. Eric Laffoon, the project lead for KDE's Kdewebdev module, takes exception to Butler's arguments and makes the case for his view on the issue of Qt at OfB.biz.
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2005-07-06
I like your thinking, but do not underestimate the work it would take to move KDE from Qt to anything else.
As the core KDE people are also Trolltech people, it would make a great movie if a fork of KDE to something else took place. Talk about reality TV drama for geeks!
Ultimately I also believe a third option will emerge that is not Qt and not GTK as it exists today. It maybe based on some of the higher level UI stuff that is in development now.