From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262708AbTJGTRI (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:17:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262725AbTJGTRI (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:17:08 -0400 Received: from gprs149-208.eurotel.cz ([160.218.149.208]:11651 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262708AbTJGTRF (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:17:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 21:16:51 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: David Lang Cc: Jesse Pollard , "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" , Krishna Akella , Paul Jakma , kartikey bhatt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Can't X be elemenated? Message-ID: <20031007191651.GD610@elf.ucw.cz> References: <3F82780C.8080408@pixelized.ch> <20031007121825.GA323@elf.ucw.cz> <03100709470200.30416@tabby> <20031007153703.GD323@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > > And yet.. there are times when I need something VERY light weight, and > > > globally portable. So I started my own for a specific application > > > where > > > > Well, in one of previous mails I said that "one per goal" is the right > > thing. So it is okay for "small" toolkits to exists, but I do not like > > qt vs. gtk, because they have identical goals. > > > > Anyway, this is off-topic for linux-kernel, and I guess we should end > > here. > > *BSD and Linux have the same goals (at least as close as GTK and QT do), > does this mean that Linus should not have started writing Linux? I'm not saying that work on GTK or QT should not have started. I understand why they did. Still its a pity. Anyway Linux vs. FreeBSD is completely another situation, because Linux is clearly dominant. I have no problem with that. But GTK vs. QT have roughly equivalent usage... Thats bad. Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]