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Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Apr 8 11:24:51 UTC 2007


Vlad wrote:
> "Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Please don't suggest the recoding of the system-config-tools
>> just for the sake of using Qt ... or did I misread you?
> 
> The best way is to develop GUI-independent backends that can be used
> by frontends written in Qt, GTK+, or even ncurses. This approach is
> taken by (K)NetworkManager, HAL/Solid, (K)Ubuntu's Ubiquity installer,
> Guidance (yes - a PyGTK frontend is on the way) and could very well
> work for Anaconda and other Fedora-specific tools. This way the core
> functionality is shared, while the users have the GUI of their choice.
> There are clear benefits to using apps made with the same toolkit as
> your desktop: less memory used, less disk space used, faster start up
> time.
> 
> If KDE is going to be supported by Fedora, it might as well be done
> right.

It is not worth the effort for Anaconda and many other tools. There are 
other KDE focussed distributions which have used GTK based tools like 
Mandriva. Nothing wrong with that.

If you disagree put in the effort.

Rahul




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