system-* tools' ui independence

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Feb 27 18:29:23 UTC 2008


Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> Nils Philippsen pisze:
>> On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 13:23 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
>>> I said few weeks or months ago, that our system-* tools cannot
>>> descriminate KDE by using GTK.
>>
>> I say that our tools using gtk/pygtk doesn't discriminate against KDE a
>> bit. If having a GTK app on KDE would be such an abomination to the
>> eyes, surely someone would have come up with a theme which resembles
>> Qt/KDE so closely nobody would notice. Or are there any interop issues
>> still open -- what doesn't work because these tools use GTK?
>>
>> Nils
> 
> GTK is not so compatible with Qt.

What does compatibility mean here and why does that matter for the 
desktop environment?

Rahul




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