[Interest] QtArg

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 10 de abril de 2012 22.30.54, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> 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.

If you have to tell your Windows users that, you have the blame: you didn't do 
a good job of packaging your application into a nice installer.

As for the GNOME users, they avoid Qt-based applications too.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
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