[bt-devel] KDE4, Qt4, and Windows porting... plus DCOP

[Eric Hartwell]

You may have a good point there. While we'd have to re-write the whole app, 
the benifit from experience (having done 1.x) and the benifit of 
restructuring the app may seriously out-weigh the disadvantages. 

I'd be in favor of a complete QT4-based re-write. 

eah

On Thursday 11 August 2005 16:44, Joachim Ansorg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I spent some time to do a Qt4 based testing application. It uses Qt4 only
> and is able to show Sword's Bible modules, to navigate in them using a tree
> structure and to display text in chapters (using Sword's HTML filters).
> It's just a small app for testing Qt4 and ideas we have for a version 2.0.
> I implemented beginnings of an user interface I'd like to have in BT. Don't
> know if that is useful. I also did a cleaner separation of the backend (if
> we can say that in such an early state of development).
>
> You can download the tgz file at
> http://www.bibletime.info/download/bibletime-testing-qt4.tgz.
> A screenshot is available at
> http://www.bibletime.info/download/bt-testing-qt4.jpg
>
> I don't have a Windoes available here atm, so I can't test if it compiles
> under Windows. Does anybody have experience with this?
>
> I think Qt4 has been improved a lot but it will be really difficult to port
> BT 1.x to Qt4 and doing refactoring and restructuring at the same time for
> 2.0.
>
> If we do a port we need to decide:
>  a) A completely new BibleTime application based on Qt4 only (+ KHTML)
>  b) A ported 1.5 app which uses Qt4's Qt3 compatibility layer and some KDE
> widgets (+KHTML)
>
> a)'s disadvantage is that it this involves a lot of work but has the
> advantage of a better software design. BibleTime's current design isn't
> well done (blame me :)
>
> b)'s disadvantage is that this requires a stable KDE 4pre (a lot of time)
> and it will probably a large app because we use KDE stuff. The advantage is
> that we can do the actual development in a shorter time. But we can't
> change the interface to something better.
>
> I don't know that the right thing is, atm.
>
> I'd love to see how big this app would be as an Windows exe using mingw.
>
> Joachim
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