Qt LTS Releases To Be Restricted To Commercial Customers, Other Commercial Changes

[ddriver]

More than a year has passed, but some things haven't changed for "ddriver":

I think the only troll here is you.
-- Upvoted 6 times at least: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/foru...86#post1063086

Seek them out and give them medals for upvoting a response that is clearly the product of failing to understand, as "trolls" in that post clearly refers to the original Trolltech company that initially developed Qt.

Also, why would my opinions on digia shift towards the positive for no reason? They did nothing positive to warrant such a change. What's your definition of personal development? Turn from a critic to a fanboi of a lousy company in a year for no valid reason whatsoever or something like that?

[carewolf]

It was more of a rebranding really, in an attempt to disassociate with the bad rep

You give the board of Digia way too much credit in how much they care about their reputation in Open Source circles. I doubt they were even aware of any of the scandals. You could call it rebranding though, but to a completely different group of people: Investors. It was apparently split off to get higher stock prices as product companies (like The Qt Company) are often valued higher than service companies (like Digia). In any case, they are separate companies now, they might share share holders, but one doesn't own or control the other.

[mulenmar]

...but freaking CSD.

So? The only thing I've ever seen benefit from CSD is a web browser, to free up a dozen or two pixels' worth of vertical space.

"Decorating" should be the window manager's job.

Maybe I just have a misunderstanding of what it's supposed to do, but given what I've seen GNOME do with it -- shoving entire menus into a drop-down menu the top bar where they take longer to get to -- I'm left cold.

This toolkit is horrible! It still uses the ancient bezeled design that dates from the '90's, and does not even support animations or stuff like that.
Heck, even the website still uses HTML4 and they use images for the corners!

I happen to like that beveled design, it guides the eye where you're supposed to look. The only problem I have is the choice of color-limited pallets that era had.

Animations are mostly a distraction that takes up CPU/GPU cycles, video RAM, and electricity, anyway. It's a ****-measuring contest to show how much you can afford to waste. Give me a very short minimize and maximize animation to indicate the program didn't simply crash, that's all that is needed.

As for the website, so what? It works, and doesn't have any tracking crap afaik, enough Javascript to fill a floppy disk, or a million Wordpress and PHP bugs.

An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age...

...okay, yeah, even I'm no fan of images-for-layout. Uses unnecessary data.

...completely unworkable "solutions" along the lines of either no copyright at all or a mandate for source release for all computer programs.

The latter sounds perfectly workable to me. You want your program hosted or installed in hardware anywhere, to be bought, used, or traded? Part of your payment is your source code, under a license requiring changes to be sent to the devs under the same (A)GPL-type terms

It's one of those things I feel Stallman is too conservative on, along with not pushing for hardware specs to be open too. I don't blame him, it's hard enough to break as far out of the cycle of exploitation as he did for someone raised and educated in it.

[tildearrow]

I happen to like that beveled design, it guides the eye where you're supposed to look. The only problem I have is the choice of color-limited pallets that era had.

Animations are mostly a distraction that takes up CPU/GPU cycles, video RAM, and electricity, anyway. It's a ****-measuring contest to show how much you can afford to waste. Give me a very short minimize and maximize animation to indicate the program didn't simply crash, that's all that is needed.

This suddenly becomes a perennial battle for dream graphical interface style guidelines.

[mulenmar]

This suddenly becomes a perennial battle for dream graphical interface style guidelines.

Well, if people would stop being insistently wrong, there wouldn't be a battle. ....bahahahaha, sorry, I couldn't resist.

Honestly, I find that I prefer themes that hybridize the two approaches -- using levels and lines where they help, and nowhere else. Even my stance on animations is probably seen as a naïve opinion or funny "betrayal" by some on both sides...

Anyway, this debate is part of why more popular GUI toolkits have theme support, when we could free up once-considerable resources and save code if we just stuck to one true look. FLTK is aimed at low-resource machines, so (to my hazy recollection) it eschews the theme support and tries to blend in with older software.

At least it's not https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software), right?

[dragon321]

Because a lot of GTK3 programs look like Gnome 3 programs regardless of the desktop environment they're used on.

Especially MATE or Cinnamon desktop? Some examples?