From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2007-02-24T06:32:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Textmate on Windoze!

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Chad Perrin wrote:
> The "ostensibly" bit is the important part of your statement: yes, it's=

> entirely possible to write Qt applications without KDE libraries, but s=
o
> rare as to be thoroughly remarkable -- especially since I haven't seen =
a
> credible app yet that uses Qt but not KDE libraries.  The potential for=

> an exception is the reason I said that Qt "generall means", not "always=

> means".
>=20

Skype. Opera (the Linux version definitely, not sure about the Windows
one). Perforce. This makes it roughly a +INF times more apps that I
regularly use over those that only use Gtk. (Which has still noticeable
visual warts on Windowsen, so I'm biased.)

(Those three were off the top of my head, by the way.)

And especially if TextMate were to be rewritten in Qt4, using KDE
instead of Qt4 would mean dropping some native fidelity on the
originating system. Given how Mac people dote on their UI, in the highly
unlikely event that such a rewrite were to happen, I believe the
dev-team wouldn't choose to use KDE. (More so because the suggested
motivation for such a rewrite would be higher portability, and a KDE
dependency would exclude Windows, increasing the potential market much
less.)

David Vallner


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