Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th May 2008 12:53 UTC, submitted by Adam S
A few weeks ago, Ars published part one in a series called "From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X". In this series, Peter Bright details why he believes "Windows is dying, Windows applications suck, and Microsoft is too blinkered to fix any of it". Part one dealt with the history of both Windows and the Mac OS, and part two deals with .Net, the different types of programmers, and Windows Vista.
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RE[5]: Nice read but KDE is better
by Morty on Tue 6th May 2008 19:59
in reply to "RE[4]: Nice read but KDE is better"
Member since:2005-07-06
Except companies have an issue when they're not willing to open source the product - it makes using KDE prohibitive. So, no that is not a very good answer.
It's actually a very good answer, since the add-on functionality you usually want to use from KDE resides in the libraries. And KDE libraries has always been LGPL or BDS licensed, making it unnecessary to open source applications using it. Making KDE a very good alternative.
However there already are several high quality extentions for Qt. They even used to be listed and linked from the Trolltech site, but it seem they have updated their website since last time I looked and I'm unable to find the page now.
Anyway one of the extentions, that has existed nearly forever(since the days of Qt 1) are Qwt.
http://qwt.sourceforge.net/index.html
From that page there are links to a few more:
http://qwtpolar.sourceforge.net/
http://qwtplot3d.sourceforge.net/
And you can look at the qt-apps site, there is a growing collection there:
http://www.qt-apps.org/index.php?xsortmode=new&xcontentmode=4298&pa...
Edited 2008-05-06 20:02 UTC
Member since:
2007-08-22
Except companies have an issue when they're not willing to open source the product - it makes using KDE prohibitive. So, no that is not a very good answer.
However, it also makes for a good case for a company to come along and provide such for Qt. But, just to note - Qt makes it far easier to create such a platform compared to say Win32/MFC/etc.