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List:       kde
Subject:    RE: KDE2 license policy
From:       Patrick O Neil <patrick.oneil () hci ! utah ! edu>
Date:       2000-08-04 16:09:57
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GTK doesn't integrate with KDE.  It is really simple.  It is an "alien"
extra lib
that doesn't play nicely with QT and KDE.  I use the KDE environment and I
prefer 
as many of my apps as possible work in an integrated fashion with my chosen 
environment.  

Themes...I use Drawingboard.  I would like all my apps to use it too but the

Gimp and other gtk apps do not use it, cannot use it, and a "similar" theme
in for gnome/gtk doesn't exist (last I checked).  This is true of many
themes,
by the way.  As for using gnome themes in kde, you can only use the bitmap 
themes, not any others.

I asked about because if someone had it already, I wanted it (qt-based
gimp).
As it turned out that no one "really" had it, I then decided that if I
wanted
it, I would have to do it myself (or hope that someone would speak up that
they
had such a beast and would be willing to pass it my way).  I am only just
learning how to program for the hell of it - it has nothing to do with my
life beyond hobby.  That being the case, it would/will be a rather big deal
for me to have to do this myself but the challenge of it could be a decent
trial by fire.  Some comments indicating that I would not be permitted to
release it simply anger me and make me want to do it all the more.  No one 
tells me I can't do something that is CLEARLY OK based on the license.
Personal
opinion or emotion is irrelevant.  That is really all there is to it.  

I simply hoped that someone had already done it and still/really had it.
Barring that, I could see myself, on the side, converting the app to qt so
that it would properly integrate into kde, though that is far from the 
optimal solution to me (doing it myself).


-----Original Message-----
From: ne...
To: KDE general mailing list
Sent: 8/4/00 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: KDE2 license policy

On Aug 4, 2000 at 05:16, Johan Stenfors eloquently wrote:

>
>>>I dont understand this discussion. WHY would anyone want to spend
time on rewriting a GTK application to QT ? What benefits would that
give ? If it was the desktop themes, than you can always choose similar
themes, and nowadays you can use a GTK theme on the KDE desktop.
>>Read the paragraph you quoted. The answer is there.
>
>I meant in general. There has been a long discussion here whether it is
respectful or not to convert a program using the GTK to instead be using
QT. It cant be only for educational reasons because if you only do it
for yourself to see if you are man enough you dont really have to bother
what others think. 
Ah, in that case, I cannot answer for the person that wrote the
message. He would have to answer for hinself.
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