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Arnold Krille wrote:

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> On Tuesday 22 December 2009 07:01:14 david wrote:

>> sonofzev@iinet.net.au wrote:

>>> On Mon Dec 21 19:05 , david  sent:

>>>> Robert Jonsson wrote:

>>>>>> One suggestion (but it may be too big a deal as the KDE folks found

>>>>>> out!), go to the more up to date QT4.

>>>>> There are no immediate plans to move, Qt3 should be around in distros

>>>>> yet for a few years. But eventually we will move. Not the least,

>>>>> there's stuff in Qt4 that would be nice to use. :)

>>>> Don't rush it. Just keep in mind that there's stuff in Qt4 that doesn't

>>>> work that works fine in Qt3, too.

>>> TMany that use MusE regularly are more concerned about jackmidi and other

>>> features that bring new functionality or interoperability. From my

>>> understanding QT4 is more of a cosmetic update and wouldn't necessarily

>>> bring more sequencer functionality in. (correct me if I'm wrong) However

>>> migrating could require a major overhaul....

>>>

>>> Robert and Tim have put in a hell of a lot of work in the past year or so

>>> and MusE is functioning really really well.  It may look a bit dated..

>>> but that's really not the point is it?

>> I'm no fan of eye candy, and that's what I think 90% of the Qt4-based

>> KDE4 *is*. I'd rather have my music computer's processor and memory

>> being used for audio than eye candy. ;-)

>

> KDE4 != Qt4

Never said it was. But Qt4 isn't there yet for some very serious non-gui

stuff - like printing.
> KDE just makes good use of Qt for eye-candy. But other projects make good use

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> of Qt for very serious non-gui stuff too.

>

> Porting to Qt4 is a lot of work. But lets be honest, its a work that should

> have been done years ago. Qt3 is out of support for several years now, why

> anybody still writes apps with it is kind of out of my reach.

> I know free projects are notoriously short of man-power. But the more you wait

> for that porting, the harder it is to find people still knowing about the steps

> needed to port. So the longer you wait, the less people you can ask (for free)

> about helping you...

Yah. And programmer egos get stroked more by doing something kewl on the

screen than by doing something that makes a program *better*.
> And switching to Qt4 is really worth it! Lots more platform-independent basic

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> stuff with lots cleaner api. And lots nicer gui stuff:-)

Eye candy.
--

David

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