Re: Can't X be elemenated?

Pavel Machek
2003-10-07T19:17:08Z

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

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