[bt-devel] Abandon KDE?

[Zachary M. Oglesby]

"Or are you leaving KDE altogether and be no longer making linux binaries."

GnomeSword <http://gnomesword.sourceforge.net/>...BibleTimes is not the only
sword based project for linux.



On Jan 27, 2008 4:13 AM, Eeli Kaikkonen <eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi>
wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Greg Hellings wrote:
> > I also don't know how this is bad news, unless it was addressed to
> > KDE-developers who like KDE libraries, etc.  The point in going to Qt
> > is that there will be official support for such builds as Windows, Mac
> > OS X, Linux, etc without requiring the person to actually install all
> > of the KDE dependencies for those platforms (KDE4 is to run on those
> > other platforms, officially on Mac starting with 4.1.0 is the plan,
> > not sure of the roadmap for Windows, etc).  Since the KDE dependencies
> > are pretty hefty, getting down to Qt-only seems desirable.  Don't
> > worry, I don't believe there's any plan to abandon Linux.
>
> Greg is mostly right. It is bad news for them who like KDE because of
> general features and integration which it offers for all KDE
> applications, like automated key bindings, toolbar editing, file
> dialogs, icons etc. For developers this move means more work because we
> loose e.g. key bindings editor altogether and have to build a new one up
> from scratch.
>
> It depends on the personal preferences of each developer but for the
> recent ones Linux is the preferred platform and I hope it will be so in
> the future. We think that there are many Bible applications for the
> Windows already but for Linux there are only a couple of Sword
> applications, including BibleTime. Linux is the most important platform
> for us. With the help of people like Greg we may be able to support Mac
> and Windows.
>
> Moving to Qt gives even more freedom to Linux users because KDE is no
> longer a dependency and we can hopefully even build static builds which
> means that if there are no specific packages for some distribution the
> users may try the static package.
>
> >
> > > Thanks, Philip
> > >
> > > P.S. Sorry for asking here.  There is never anyone in irc when I'm
> there and
> > > the forum isn't working
>
> Don't be sorry, there's not too much traffic here. I should hang on the
> irc channel but I'm too lazy. The link to the forum should be taken away
> or the forum should be fixed. There is a forum for BibleTime in
> http://crosswire.org/forums/mvnforum/index.
>
>
>  Yours,
>        Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
>        e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)
>
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