[OT] Re: Move Evolution to Extras?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Apr 5 13:52:47 UTC 2006


Erwin Rol wrote:


> Doesn't the gtk-qt engine create a GTK theme that uses a Qt theme ? With
> other words GNOME applications look like Qt applications. For a gnome
> desktop it would be better if there was a Qt theme engine that uses GTK
> to draw Qt/KDE applications. 

True, but who cares as long as the look-n-feel is consistent?

> Also since Qt is GPL, doesn't the gtk-qt-engine introduce some licensing
> problems, cause all GTK applications will than be "linked" with Qt, and
> so they all should be GPL (which isn't needed with GTK)

I don't think a theme-engine counts as "linking" in the GPL-sense, but 
that's just my non-lawyer opinion.

-- Rex




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