Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 28th Jan 2007 02:12 UTC, submitted by flanque
"So, which really is better for the desktop: Vista or Linux? I've been working with Vista since its beta days, and I started using Linux in the mid-90s. There may be other people who have worked with both more than I have, but there can't be many of them. Along the way, I've formed a strong opinion: Linux is the better of the two. But, now that Vista is on the brink of becoming widely available, I thought it was time to take a comprehensive look at how the two really compare. To do this, I decided to take one machine, install both of them on it, and then see what life was like with both operating systems on a completely even playing field."
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2006-01-21
You contradict yourself. You have to chose between Qt and Gtk, you can't use both for your project, ...
Just out of curiosity, why can't a project decide to develop frontends for both large toolkits? Is it a problem with a license or is it just that you wouldn't do it and conclude from that, that others can't do it?
so there's no standard, neither Qt nor Gtk is the standard, you're free.
Actually, both QT(3 and 4) and GTK are part of a standard. I would suggest heading over to
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Specifications
and read the "Desktop" section of the current LSB 3.1 specification. The fact, that no "single" standard exists wrt to toolkits should not be mistaken with a situation, where no standard at all exists. Pretty big difference.
So, LSB compatible distributions know what versions of the QT and GTK land they should provide at least as an optional upgrade and 3rd party developers can always include the libraries in question on the installation media just in case. Everybody (well, everybody except you) happy!
Freedom in this case is not a good thing.
Well, that's your opinion.
EDIT: Fixed typos and misspellings
Edited 2007-01-28 17:23