Things to do before GUI-developers can start their work



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