I was wondering - since Unity 2d is likely to be dropped in Ubuntu 12.10 - what will be the future of Qt development within the Ubuntu ecosystem - such as Ubuntu TV and Ubuntu for Android?
cheers.
Uri
I was wondering - since Unity 2d is likely to be dropped in Ubuntu 12.10 - what will be the future of Qt development within the Ubuntu ecosystem - such as Ubuntu TV and Ubuntu for Android?
cheers.
Uri
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Doesn't KDE (used in Kubuntu) make heavy use of Qt? And that's just if you choose to look at major Ubuntu flavours. It's used in lots of places. I wouldn't be too worried about the death of Qt.
Last edited by Dylan1473; August 5th, 2012 at 03:57 AM.
"..it is the purpose that guides us, drives us, purpose that defines us.."
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By all accounts yes Ubuntu and Canonical is dropping a lot of QT support and its not a good thing as there are a lot of QT apps that are superior to GTK ones such as VLC, UMplayer, Clementine, Amarok, QMC2, the KDE plasma workspace in general (far more customizable, configurable and easy to use for newcommers then Gnome Shell or Unity) plus some proprietary apps like opera and skype are coded in QT so Canonical has pretty much fallen back on inferior GTK3 apps.
Need studies to show KDE is easier to use for newcomers than Unity.
I don't see any reason at all to see Canonical dropping QT support. The deprecation of unity-2d was to avoid duplication of efforts. I wish they dropped the compiz plugin because unity-2d is more standalone. But I doubt it has anything to do with QT itself.
Canonical would prefer GTK apps as opposed to QT apps in the default , for the obvious reason that they integrate better with the gnome desktop ubuntu uses (unity is just a shell for gnome, most of the DE is still gnome)
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When I asked Ted Gould about Unit 2D at UDS in May he didn't mention QT at all. In fact, he did make a point of clarifying that Unity 2D isn't being dropped per se, but merely that its functionality is being rolled into the main Unity effort, so one project will provide the UI with greater similarity to each other than the current separate projects.
What functionality exactly? Will I be able to run Unity-"3d" without compiz?
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