porting gtk apps to qt

[davbren]

Hey all, I was just thinking. Would it be really difficult to port gtk apps to qt?

[Simian Man]

In general yes it would be difficult. If it was trivial, the KDE people would have ported most of the good GTK apps already.

[davbren]

touche. hehe. I might look it up though and see how far i get.

[GeneralZod]

Depending on just how ubiquitous the use of GTK is within the app (e.g. Firefox barely uses it - it runs perfectly on Windows, for example, where it does not use GTK, whereas something like Pidgin probably uses something GTK-related on every line of code), the word "port" might need to be replaced with "rewrite from scratch" :)