Re: Re: Re: Are configuration & UI better in 4.2?
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- Subject: [mg36964] Re: [mg36909] Re: Re: Are configuration & UI better in 4.2?
- From: Gerald Roth <gerald.roth at aon.at>
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 00:17:08 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Graz, Austria
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
hi On Wednesday 02 October 2002 09:31, you wrote: > AFAIK, Mac OS is now BSD or something like that. That makes it almost > certain that it could support QT. As I pointed out in another post, I can > run the KDE on Windows XP. I haven't been in the trenches with the Qt > coders working on cross platform (Windows/Linux, etc.) development, but my > impression is, it really is 'code once, run everywhere'. i've checked the trolltech hp. qt fully supports the following OS: MS Windows 95/98/Me, NT4, 2000 and XP. Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, and many other Unix variants. Mac OS X. > This is one of the reasons I am such a Mozilla fan. Konqueror works quite > well as a browser for Linux, and out-does Mozilla for file fetching and the > like. But Mozilla runs everywhere with more or less a uniform look and > feel. Yes, Mozilla is written with Gtk and not with Qt, but that just > shows that WRI has options. i'm not sure if it is allowed to create a closed-source product like the mathematica fronend based on a gpl'ed library like gtk. with qt you have the possibility to buy licenses for the commercial version of qt, allowing you to create closed-source apps. > I'm a KDE fan. I've used the KDE since it was in alpha 0.4. I remember > back when it would compile in a few minutes on a pentium II. Now it takes > several hours on a P4. i started with beta1 (if i remember correctly) - sure it is really big now, but i think kde is still far away from being bloated..... imagine the mathematica frontend being seamlessly integrated into the linux ui's look and feel.... > I've always hated motif. The file chooser simply stinks. And that's just a > start. the whole motif ui stinks....:-) gerald ************************************* Gerald Roth M@th Desktop Development Tel: +43 - 316 - 57 16 33 Email: Gerald.Roth at aon.at *************************************
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- From: Steven <hattons@speakeasy.net>
- Re: Re: Are configuration & UI better in 4.2?