KWinFT Projects Hit Beta Ahead Of Stable Releases Aligned With KDE Plasma 5.20

[shmerl]

As I said, those parts are being removed or made into just a syntax wrapper. The parts that remain are significantly different from the standard library.

That's good, but that didn't happen yet. And if there is way to avoid depending on Qt which is a massive dependency in general, then why not.

[bug77]

By shifting the burden of maintaining the toolkit to the KDE team?

Short of stopping work on Qt, how would they do that? And if the maintainer stops working on a project, that affects downstreams regardless, nothing Qt specific here.

Maybe some lawsuits for good measure.

I haven't heard of lawsuits around GPL code, save for using it not releasing the code. Which is not the case for KDE.

They don't need to forcibly kick them out and slam the door. Microsoft has killed competitors indirectly since forever and it worked wonders for them.

So basically you have no clue how, yet are still pretty sure using Qt is a bad idea. Kudos.

[JackLilhammers]

Seems you also ignored their most recent move of restricting GPL releases.

.NET and C# aimed to kill Java though, it never had anything to do with Linux specifically. It wouldn't do much harm anyway, as it became pretty much one more language in an already huge selection.

Of course I didn't like that, but it won't affect Kde in any way, because they're not tied to LTS releases.

The only ones really hit by that decision are small business (like the one I work for), because now we'll have to update too soon or stay outdated.
In this regard I think nobody will buy the commercial license and I hope QtCo ends up losing money instead.
That way maybe their shortsighted management will learn something

[angrypie]

So basically you have no clue how, yet are still pretty sure using Qt is a bad idea. Kudos.

I never said that, but Qt will be or is in the way of being mismanaged to death. How this will affect the code base is to be seen.

[JackLilhammers]

I never said that, but Qt will be or is in the way of being mismanaged to death. How this will affect the code base is to be seen.

Their financial data tells another story