VLC is moving to QT4

[maagimies]

i can't speak for viciouslime, but i can see where he's coming from. some viable reasons are:
-qt apps looks awful in gnome
-they often don't play nice with gnome

I'm using Ktorrent quite nicely in Gnome
You can use something like the human color theme, and try different styles with it. Maybe it's just my taste but in my opinion Qt apps don't look "awful" in Gnome.

[Sluipvoet]

I'm using Ktorrent quite nicely in Gnome
You can use something like the human color theme, and try different styles with it. Maybe it's just my taste but in my opinion Qt apps don't look "awful" in Gnome.

Maybe not awful but certainly out of place.
And those color schemes are never as good as the original GTK-theme, and if you want to change your theme you've got change it separately for your QT-apps.(all luxury probs, and not everybody cares as much about it, but I try to avoid it by using as few QT-apps as possible).

[hanzomon4]

Qt looks bad to me, but....... Anyway is their a way to use vlc without a front end? I use the "-i dummy" thing but it leaves vlc running in the background when I close the window

[Malta paul]

Well Guys choice is a great thing. I use VLC for what it dose, not how it looks

[Kimm]

I think this is a great move. I personaly use XFCE, but I find Qt4 to be a better toolkit than GTK2 and if there was a light desktop like xfce using Qt4 I'd make the switch any day!

[zachtib]

Well Guys choice is a great thing. I use VLC for what it dose, not how it looks

this annoyed me, but i realized that i always have VLC maximized anyways. still, i hope they make it easy for someone to write a simple GTK+ frontend, that would be nice

[weatherman]

-qt apps looks awful in gnome

qt4 is supposed to address the problem

[ComplexNumber]

qt4 is supposed to address the problem

i heard that as well...with the new CleanLooks theme. whether its true or not is a different matter. me thinks not as qt/kde aps are going to stick out like a sore and ugly thumb - the theme is going to have to replicate the current gtk theme rather than just the default gtk theme.

[DigitalDuality]

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[ComplexNumber]

what preference is that? i hope it's somehow a philisophical one.. b/c gtk is ugly and slow.

hmmm i don't think many will agree with that. qt is slower at the moment because gtk has cairo. qt4 with arthur is meant to be slightly faster than gtk with cairo in its present state. but ugly? nah, most will say that the Ugly Award has always been won by qt. gtk is quite an attractive toolkit.