[Qt-interest] Qt and KDE code

[Brad Hards]

On Tuesday 23 March 2010 04:50:48 pm M. Bashir Al-Noimi wrote:
> Why KDE isn't completely cross platform just like Qt? although it 
> inherited from many Qt classes (KDE applications in Windows are absolute 
> disaster where Qt works smoothly in many platforms) !!!
"absolute disaster" is quite inflamatory language - it looks like you're just 
trolling. 

There are a few things where the KDE Software Collection uses libraries or 
features that don't work (or aren't often tested) on Windows, so there are 
some differences. 

> Why portability of GTK -generally- is better than KDE specially by 
> comparing to KDE3?
Do you remember that KDE 3 used Qt 3? Do you remember that Qt 3 wasn't GPL on 
Windows? So not many Free Software developers used it, and therefore there was 
no porting effort. [Also, a few things have changed since 2005, which was the 
last feature release in the KDE 3 series].

Also comparison between GTK and KDE isn't an "apples to applies" comparison. 
GTK is a toolkit, so it is more appropriate to compare it to Qt (perhaps 
QtGui). If you want to compare applications, you should compare KDE with 
Gnome.
 
> Sorry for obtrusion but I was looking for answers years ago but I 
> couldn't get them.
You might like to ask more politely, and to provide specific questions rather 
than something that looks quite like a "rant".

Brad