From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org>
To: Patrick Finnegan <pat@purdueriots.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kconfig (qt) -> Gconfig (gtk)
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 23:28:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021102232836.GD731@gallifrey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211021652470.16432-100000@ibm-ps850.purdueriots.com>
* Patrick Finnegan (pat@purdueriots.com) wrote:
> On 2 Nov 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 20:36, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > > Oh please....
> > > Wouldn't it be more helpful to iron the (few) small glitches out of the
> > > qt based one than write a new one just because you don't happen to like
> > > the library?
> >
> > Lota of installations have gtk but don't have qt.
>
> And a lot of installations have QT but not GTK... This feels like a vi vs
> emacs discussion.
>
> Personally, it makes no difference to me which library is used. I'm
> doubtful I'll use anything other than menuconfig unless it makes my life a
> *whole* lot easier. I'd say 'choose one and get on with it.'
Exactly my point. I just don't see the point in spending the neuron
hours on both.
But you guys who are worried about space and dependencies always can:
1) use menuconfig
2) Write one in Tcl/Tk which is nice and small and portable and has
few dependencies......oh we've been there.
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-02 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-25 22:21 Kconfig (qt) -> Gconfig (gtk) Romain Lievin
2002-11-02 7:03 ` Nero
2002-11-02 20:36 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2002-11-02 17:00 ` Jon Portnoy
2002-11-02 22:19 ` bert hubert
2002-11-02 19:45 ` Nero
2002-11-02 20:42 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-11-02 21:12 ` David B. Stevens
2002-11-02 21:07 ` Russell King
2002-11-02 22:43 ` Marek Habersack
2002-11-02 22:48 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-11-02 21:25 ` Dave Jones
2002-11-02 21:59 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-02 21:57 ` Patrick Finnegan
2002-11-02 22:06 ` Russell King
2002-11-02 22:33 ` Roman Zippel
2002-11-02 22:34 ` Russell King
2002-11-03 3:18 ` Gerhard Mack
2002-11-02 22:47 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-11-02 23:03 ` Roman Zippel
2002-11-02 22:56 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-02 23:07 ` Patrick Finnegan
2002-11-03 4:07 ` Matthew D. Pitts
2002-11-04 4:57 ` Stefan Traby
2002-11-04 6:21 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-11-02 23:28 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2002-11-02 22:43 ` Nero
2002-11-02 23:59 ` Roman Zippel
2002-11-03 0:06 ` J.A. Magallón
2002-11-02 23:16 ` Nero
2002-11-03 1:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-03 3:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-11-03 9:47 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-11-03 12:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-11-03 4:42 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-11-03 0:07 ` Patrick Finnegan
2002-11-03 3:53 ` George Staikos
2002-11-03 9:08 ` Nero
2002-11-06 0:45 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-11-06 1:25 ` Mariusz Zielinski
2002-11-03 1:15 ` Rando Christensen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-31 13:43 Where's the documentation for Kconfig? Matthew Wilcox
2002-10-31 14:43 ` Roman Zippel
2002-11-01 12:52 ` Russell King
2002-11-01 13:50 ` Roman Zippel
2002-11-01 19:31 ` Russell King
2002-11-01 20:35 ` Roman Zippel
[not found] ` <20020625221306.GA439@free.fr>
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211021254420.6949-100000@serv>
2002-11-02 13:20 ` Kconfig (qt) -> Gconfig (gtk+) Romain Lievin
2002-11-02 14:45 ` Roman Zippel
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