Ubuntu 14.04 Looks Toward Qt 5.2, Qt Mir In 14.10

[tomtomme]

Not according to Digia. Windows is a huge market to Qt and any commit hitting Qt MUST take windows and other non-free platforms into account. that is how you do business when you provide a commrcial frame work.

So from your point of view it is bad to take money for a good product? To take money for open source software is evil? Did I get that right? Digia is commercial, so they are bad guys?
How far would open source software be without paid developers and big firms with commercial interests in open source software?

[benalib]

you quoted me on the very topic on contributing to Qt. And that requires CLA.

yes
but many Qt framework contributors and approvers are active within KDE project. Many Qt project modules are developed and maintained by KDE contributors. Digia can't take the risk of closing the code, they would loose many active conrtibutors and maintainers within the Qt project itself and the KDE Qt Foundation can continue the development of the free version of Qt. There is a interdependency and close relationship between the two projects and there is a legal aggreement protecting the freedom of Qt

[Alex Sarmiento]

You are very funny, really! Gnome did lost a lot of customizability these days.

Gnome lost a lot of usability , not just customization.

, that's why Cinnamon and MATE happened

And Unity ... damn! at least 3 forks , 4 gnome desktops. Gnome 3, what a disaster .

[benalib]

No. The Qt upstream is CLAed. Even KDE have to sign the CLA, beause Digia won' accept GPL.

total bullshit
you don't have to sign CLA to use Qt
you don't have to sign the CLA to fork Qt
that's why there is an agreement between KDE foundation and Nokia and later Digia
there is the KDE Free Qt Foundation that protect the freedom of Qt
Qt project uses many KDE contributions and Digia can't just ignore them when attempting to close the code
the free sofwatre version of Qt will remain free and independent

[timofonic]

Honton is a notorious troll who will say anything, even blatantly lie, to trash any DE other than Gnome. He has a handful of talking points he uses to derail any thread even remotely related to any DE other than Gnome into a flamefest.

I was mentioning Vim_User, not Honton.

Gnome won't die anytime soon, not until someone makes a DE that is more usable and more customizable. Gnome has lost a lot of its existing users who are used to the more traditional kind of desktops, but the new generation of users will find Gnome to be the most productive desktop environment, especially after customizing it to your needs from the pool of hundreds of existing extensions. Also, Gnome is currently progressing at a pace faster than other environment. The only point I have against Gnome 3 is the use of web technologies (CSS, Javascript) which makes it slow and heavy.

You are very funny, really! Gnome did lost a lot of customizability these days, that's why Cinnamon and MATE happened.

Do you mean the new generation of users are going to be smarter? So you hate experienced users, I see. Do you have any idea what "productive" is in a computing environment? These days computer users are less skilled and more used to crappy software than before, they lack patience and knowledge to find suitable software for many tasks (unless they are a bit passionate about computers). And people aren't so used to waste HOURS finding those damn extensions in Gnome, it's way for more difficult to install them than in Firefox.

What's progressing at a faster pace? I see MANY projects migrating from GTK to Qt.

KDE had many really bad practices like releasing an UNSTABLE version as final software, (4.0) and I got lots of problems when using it on many systems I maintain. They also have stuff like nepomuk, that eats lots of I/O and can make the system unusable.

KDE is the lesser problem about Digia, maybe they get a bit of individual contributors and such. But their success is on propietary platforms and it's going to be that way for a lot of time.

What I see, both KDE and Gnome are inefficient and lack standarization in many ways (KIO vs GIO, kdewallet vs gnome-keyring, phonon vs gstreamer...). That's good for more lightweight and flexible competitors, like XFCE. The problem is that "complete" solutions are blind and only look to their own environment, and are quite bloated too. It's a shame to not see a lightweight competitor to Evince and Okular in XFCE, for example (there should be a proper framework to read documents and that code shared between major apps). I just hope Freedesktop.org effort gets stronger and standarize a lot more parts of the desktop ecosystem.

[Vim_User]

Not according to Digia. Windows is a huge market to Qt and any commit hitting Qt MUST take windows and other non-free platforms into account. that is how you do business when you provide a commrcial frame work.

So please show us commits that were rejected because they didn't take Windows or other platforms into account. If you can't you have just busted yourself.

[benalib]

No. Did you really think Digia would care one bit for KDE if a better promotion opportunity showed up? Hell Digia might even get some money from Canonical to do consulting and support. It might be Digia and Canonical killing off KDE, if you won't accept he fact that Gnome is killing KDE.

kde rely on Qt , contribute to it and it will protect its freedom where necessary
Qt license is free and will remain free

[tomtomme]

No. Did you really think Digia would care one bit for KDE if a better promotion opportunity showed up? Hell Digia might even get some money from Canonical to do consulting and support. It might be Digia and Canonical killing off KDE, if you won't accept he fact that Gnome is killing KDE.

And why would someone be so happy about a opensource software project dying - isn?t windows the "enemy"?

[jrch2k8]

No. Did you really think Digia would care one bit for KDE if a better promotion opportunity showed up? Hell Digia might even get some money from Canonical to do consulting and support. It might be Digia and Canonical killing off KDE, if you won't accept he fact that Gnome is killing KDE.

competing with bo$$ for the Phoronix Troll of the Year award?

well with your utterly ovbious lack of knowledge about the topic i have very real doubts anyone will take you seriously, so put back that tinfoil hat and back to your cave

[dh04000]

You should be banned, using pejorative language. Who are you to insult that way?

If you don't think that his language is respectful(which calling someone an arse, most certainly isn't), then hit the little black triangle with the exclamation mark in the left side on his post, and tell the moderators about his abusive language. No one has the right to speak like that to someone in civilized society, IMO.