From kde-core-devel  Fri Sep 14 23:24:16 2007
From: Kurt Pfeifle <k1pfeifle () gmx ! net>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:24:16 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Consider me sceptical if we rely on Trolltech's qprinter only,
Message-Id: <46EB1820.5080109 () gmx ! net>
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Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
>> On Friday 14 September 2007 23:27, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>> You said it yourself: printing isn't sexy. Yes. And people don't print
>>> that much anymore.
>> Do you or does Trolltech have hard data on that?
> 
> No. This is just guessing from me.
> 
> And I should be comparing the relative importance of the subsystems. 
> Almost all applications today are networked. How many print?
> 
> Think kdegames, kdetoys, kdeedu applications.
> 
> Let me make it clear: I am not saying printing is not important or that we 
> can ignore it. I am merely justifying why other areas of Qt got more 
> attention. I thought that would be a no-brainer.

..and you happily avoided to comment on the 3 specific examples I gave
(where Qt3 sucks) :-)


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