Things to do before GUI-developers can start their work
Subject: Things to do before GUI-developers can start their work
From: James Frye
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:51:33 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, C Y wrote:
> --- James Frye <frye@cs.unr.edu> wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Michael Reimpell wrote:
> >
> > > Although QT/KDE is somehow bounded to Linux, it is well suited to
> > develop an
> > > interface:
> >
> > Isn't KDE bound not just to Linux, but to Linux using KDE as a window
> > manager?
>
> Not really - it's bound to having KDE installed on your machine. You
> don't have to actually be running it. I normally use Fluxbox as my
> window manager, but I still can use KDE apps.
OK, but it's almost the same thing. I mean, why would I install KDE when
I'm never going to use it?
> > The QT toolkit I think runs on most platforms, though.
>
> It does, but I'm not sure about using it on platforms other than Linux
> for open source stuff.
I think it must be ok, since I see things like Lyx that use it, and run
on non-Linux platforms.
James