The Haiku alpha is barely out the door, and we already have another important news item about the open source reimplementation of the BeOS. About 18 months ago, Evgeny Abdraimov started porting the Qt4 graphical toolkit to Haiku, and now, we ave some seriously epic screenshots showing a multitude of Qt4 applications running in Haiku, as well as a developer preview release.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Uh? Only if there are application developpers who cares about responsiveness.
Given that both Linux and Windows have responsiveness much worse than BeOS had (on much less powerful hardware), it's very doubtful that they care: it's not something easy to measure, so it's not easy to sell..
Fan are fans.. Yes BeOS was much more responsive that current OS are, this doesn't mean that they succeeded commercially and this doesn't mean that Haiku will succeed: I'd be delighted if it does, but I'm not holding my breath.
Yeah right! We are all using BeOS on Alpha CPUs..
Member since:2006-12-20
Well yes, that's what I meant really. If eg. responsiveness is all that Haiku native apps have to offer, then I would be surprised if that alone was enough to set them apart, especially if the apps are lacking in features and general maturity when compared to ported apps. If there are other technological advantages that native apps can make use of, then maybe that will be interesting.
You mention that responsiveness might not be a great selling point alone, which I would agree with. I had the same argument here with someone regarding disk footprint: if nobody cares about that so much then you may as well spend your developent time doing something they do care about instead. That's good tech, and that's what sells.
Yeah right! We are all using BeOS on Alpha CPUs.. "
As I've said elsewhere, I don't suggest this to be a general rule but in Qt apps vs. Haiku native I think this would be the case.
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2006-12-20
I wasn't stating it as a general rule, I was saying that if Qt runs on Haiku, then native apps will have to compete with that, and that it will be the superior technology out of those two that wins in that situation.
I don't even think that "superior technology wins out in the end" is so beyond argument (for a start, when is "the end"?) but that's not what I said, you have taken my quote out of context.
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2006-12-20
I don't want to sound too harsh here, but if the technology of BeOS/Haiku is so great, then that ought to result in native apps becoming superior to Qt apps anyway.
If Haiku is as promising as the fans say it is (and I don't entirely doubt them) then they really have nothing to fear from Qt. I believe that the superior technology will win out in the end.