Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:18:45 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
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> Marc Wilson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:07:18PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> >> It's a shame that people still think of this as a concern: For
> >> the vast majority of people, I'd suggest that using GTK-apps or
> >> QT-apps in mutual exclusion is a serious case of premature
> >> optimisation and such people are missing out on some truly
> >> great software.
> >
> > Unfortunately, while there are lots of GTK-based applications
> > that don't necessarily require Gnome, or can be built to not
> > require Gnome, the same thing cannot be said for QT-based
> > applications. I have never found that QT has wide acceptance
> > outside the KDE community. Exceptions are applications like
> > scribus, but those are few and far between.
>
> And now
>
> $ ldd googleearth-bin | grep q
> libqt-mt.so.3 => /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 (0xa6d84000)
> libqui.so.1 => /usr/lib/libqui.so.1 (0xa6d4a000)
Whereas the installer is a GTK app. Goes to show that you will always
encounter both toolkits on the modern desktop.
--
Liam
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