Re: [Texmacs-dev] Re: News and questions

[David Allouche]

On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 09:09:11PM +0200, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> 
> >     > I hope you will use GTK so as to fit in best with the GNU system.
> > 
> >     The problem is that it does not seem to port to Windows quite well.
> > 
> > What does that mean?
> 
> So who told me that? Should we reconsider GTK?

Basically, you told me that everybody told you that Qt integrated much
better in the Win32 GUI.

It is a fact that GTK is not good at providing native look-and-feel. I
would tend to consider that is a consequence of the choice of the GTK
developpers to port their Xlib wrapper in order to reduce their amount
of work.


> >     > I don't follow--how does the license of Windows Qt encourage end
> >     > users to switch from Windows to GNU/Linux or *BSD?
> > 
> >     Because users are offered the same product for free on a free OS.
> > 
> > I still don't see the connection.  You can "offer the same product"
> > with another toolkit instead.
> 
> He wants me to reply?

I do not know. Anyway, I think what you are saying makes no kind of
sense in RMS view of world. Maybe it may hit some danger triggers in
his head, like "confusing gratis and free", "slow drift to proprietary
licensing", "compromise with the demon".

I am not even sure of this making sense to me.

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                             -- David --