Re: [Visualpython-users] Cocoa-based VPython desperately needed on the Mac

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:21:03 Hugh Fisher wrote:
> It wouldn't be as smooth for Linux (although Qt apps run perfectly well 
> under GNOME) but I don't believe native look & feel and tight desktop 
> integration is quite so important on Linux.

Don't get things confused here. Qt does and has always worked *very* well 
under Linux. And GNOME is *not* part of Linux, but just one popular desktop 
environment.

Qt has been developed from the very start to be cross platform for the 
environments UN*X/Linux, Mac and Wintendo. So, running a Qt app under Gnome is 
no different than running a Gtk app (e. g. Gimp) under KDE. And Gnome as well 
as KDE are pretty much interchangeable towards being usable as well as 
supported.

> Using Qt is banned by the current iPhone/iPad SDK license agreement, but 
> Python interpreters were already banned so we'd be no worse off.

The good thing is that Nokia bought Trolltech, and they're putting heavy loads 
of work in putting Qt onto everything mobile (Linux as well as Symbian based) 
as well as desktop. They're also using Python heavily for mobile apps, and 
they're developing PySide (LGPL PyQt replacement). So, let's see where this 
will all lead us, especially with the current Java issues on Android.

But this is going off on a tangent, now ...

Guy

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