More Open-Source Participants Are Backing A Possible Fork Of Qt

[angrypie]

Good luck!

Source?

[Anvil]

The amount of concern trolling in this thread is... concerning.



Red Hat isn't paying for that. The KDE SIG is 100% run by volunteers; their "official" desktop is GNOME. And they kinda control it since many developers who work on GNOME are from Red Hat. A Qt fork is obviously going to happen.

so Secure boot is Free?

[angrypie]

so Secure boot is Free?

Are you clinically retarded?

[Anvil]

Are you clinically retarded?

Yes, , i come here to learn, didnt you know that

[Viki Ai]

Just port it all to OpenStep

[wikinevick]

A fork under an Apache License would be interesting.

[Guest]

There are two reasons that people didn't like TDE:

1. Because keeping Qt 3.x alive appeared to be duplicating a lot of effort without a strong justification. (ie. Trolltech wasn't doing anything evil with Qt 4)
2. They appeared to be doing it out of blind hatred of KDE 4, and developing a platform based on a negative premise (ie. "not X") rather than a positive one (ie. a solid "nobody else meets this need") is never a good thing.

See, for example, Martin Flöser's blog post on the subject.

TDE is an interesting project, but it has some important issues for a daily use: Konqueror sometimes crash while copying, and Ark has some problems in extracting while dragging and in the X11 xds protocol in general. Just some examples. Moreover, if the clock plugin showed the calendar events I could reconsider it for a daily usage. It lacks of hidpi support.

[oiaohm]

Good luck!

There is one big problem 2/3 of the bugs closed in the last 12 months in qt were done by KDAB. Also a percentage of open bugs are patches from KDAB that have not been processed and accepted as well.

Sorry we are looking at a OpenOffice like mess here. Oracle made the same arguement when Libreoffice forked off OpenOffice. Both cases you had another party in the wings doing most of the work and getting almost zero of the credit.

[reavertm]

This thread is hilarious. People suggesting KDE would ever switch to inferior toolkit (GTK) are delusional and projecting their wet dreams onto reality.
As long time KDE user, KDE packager in Gentoo in GNU/Linux in a past and occasional KDE contributor in a past, I wouldn't even care if newest releases were open-sourced with year delay. It would just mean more stability for the project.
A lot of fuss about nothing.

[Awesomeness]

Phonon was replaced by QtMultimedia in Qt5.

Technically true but not entirely the whole story. Phonon is by KDE and at some point Qt adopted that. Just because Qt later decided that they want to own the code and removed Phonon from Qt, doesn't mean that KDE has somehow abandoned it. The last release is from September: https://github.com/KDE/phonon/releases