[Interest] QtArg

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 10/04/12 22:24, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On terça-feira, 10 de abril de 2012 22.07.49, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> Which is a pity. There's a lot of functionality in the KDE libs that you
>>> should use. You should consider transforming your Qt-only app into a KDE
>>> one.
>> That is really bad advise :-/  It would mean non-KDE users (about 90% of
>> my userbase) will not use the app.  But I still care very much about the
>> remaining 10%!  But if push came to shove, I'd rather drop KDE (10%)
>> than the rest (90% - Gnome, Windows, OS X.)
>
> That was an ironic way of saying that there's a lot of good things inside the
> KDE libraries, so (the next paragraph's message) you should be glad that some
> of it is finding its way to Qt 5.
>
> That said, I don't follow your reasoning. KDE applications run outside of KDE
> just fine, so linking to the KDE libs does, by itself, exclude those other
> environments.

In theory it doesn't exclude them, in practice it does.  Gnome users 
avoid KDE apps like the plague, and telling users to install KDE on 
Windows would sound just idiotic to them.