Subject: Re: Switch from GTK to QT (was: ASU software - pre-pre-release impressions)

	Date: mer 21 mag 08 09:22:38 -0400
Quoting Nkoli (coomac@gmail.com):
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Carlo E. Prelz  wrote:

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> >

> > My complaint is that it would be difficult for me to put my hands into

> > the default apps. They are C++, QT, and expectedly using enough of

> > those creepy C++-isms (possibly, even those yecchy templates or

> > whereabouts). I would be comfortable with tinkering with C&GTK main

> > apps. On the other hand, I would find C++&QT main apps closed boxes (I

> > perfectly know that I could very well write C/Ruby new code on the

> > OM).

> >

> From this statement, one would think that you don't use _any_ applications

> written in C++ or Qt for the simple reason that you can't tinker with the

> code. I am sure this is not the case. You use the applications written in

> C++/Qt and play with those written in the languages you're comfortable with

> or you write your own from scratch. 

I do not use any Qt app (Qt not installed on any of my PC's). My XFCE

setup is satisfactory as it is. I do use C++-written apps (starting

with dear old Groff). No need to modify them, though. 
But you do not see the point. The cutting point of OM is that I can

(rather, could) finely adapt the core phone applications to my many

quirks. If I cannot do this, well, no reason to substitute my old

palm, which goes on giving me the phone/pim services I need

(all this, with a QWERTY keyboard and long battery time).
> Refusing to get the phone because you dislike the languages the shipped apps

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> are written in, not because it prevents anyone from coding in the languages

> they prefer or that any of the applications are proprietary is beyond

> ridiculous. 

You appear to have a very low ridiculousness threshold.
Carlo
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  *         Se la Strada e la sua Virtu' non fossero state messe da parte,

* K * Carlo E. Prelz - fluido@fluido.as             che bisogno ci sarebbe

  *               di parlare tanto di amore e di rettitudine? (Chuang-Tzu)
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