"Or are you leaving KDE altogether and be no longer making linux binaries."<br><br><a href="http://gnomesword.sourceforge.net/">GnomeSword</a>...BibleTimes is not the only sword based project for linux.<br><br><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 27, 2008 4:13 AM, Eeli Kaikkonen <<a href="mailto:eekaikko@mail.student.oulu.fi">eekaikko@mail.student.oulu.fi</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Greg Hellings wrote:<br>> I also don't know how this is bad news, unless it was addressed to<br>> KDE-developers who like KDE libraries, etc. The point in going to Qt<br>
> is that there will be official support for such builds as Windows, Mac<br>> OS X, Linux, etc without requiring the person to actually install all<br>> of the KDE dependencies for those platforms (KDE4 is to run on those<br>
> other platforms, officially on Mac starting with 4.1.0 is the plan,<br>> not sure of the roadmap for Windows, etc). Since the KDE dependencies<br>> are pretty hefty, getting down to Qt-only seems desirable. Don't<br>
> worry, I don't believe there's any plan to abandon Linux.<br><br></div>Greg is mostly right. It is bad news for them who like KDE because of<br>general features and integration which it offers for all KDE<br>
applications, like automated key bindings, toolbar editing, file<br>dialogs, icons etc. For developers this move means more work because we<br>loose e.g. key bindings editor altogether and have to build a new one up<br>from scratch.<br>
<br>It depends on the personal preferences of each developer but for the<br>recent ones Linux is the preferred platform and I hope it will be so in<br>the future. We think that there are many Bible applications for the<br>
Windows already but for Linux there are only a couple of Sword<br>applications, including BibleTime. Linux is the most important platform<br>for us. With the help of people like Greg we may be able to support Mac<br>and Windows.<br>
<br>Moving to Qt gives even more freedom to Linux users because KDE is no<br>longer a dependency and we can hopefully even build static builds which<br>means that if there are no specific packages for some distribution the<br>
users may try the static package.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>><br>> > Thanks, Philip<br>> ><br>> > P.S. Sorry for asking here. There is never anyone in irc when I'm there and<br>> > the forum isn't working<br>
<br></div>Don't be sorry, there's not too much traffic here. I should hang on the<br>irc channel but I'm too lazy. The link to the forum should be taken away<br>or the forum should be fixed. There is a forum for BibleTime in<br>
<a href="http://crosswire.org/forums/mvnforum/index" target="_blank">http://crosswire.org/forums/mvnforum/index</a>.<br><br><br> Yours,<br><font color="#888888"> Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland<br> e-mail: <a href="mailto:eekaikko@mailx.studentx.oulux.fix">eekaikko@mailx.studentx.oulux.fix</a> (with no x)<br>
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