[techtalk] GUI's

[Kelly Lynn Martin]

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:56:53 -0500, Aaron Malone <aaron at mancala.semo.net> said:

>As a side note, someone (I think kelly) described Qt as a 'dog'.  I'm
>curious about this...  my experiences with Qt have been great -- much
>easier to write in than Gtk+.  I'm hardly an experienced X
>programmer, though... perhaps you can correct me?

It is easier to write (bad) code with Qt than with GTK.  However, Qt
is terribly inefficient.  Pixmap rendering in GTK (using GTKRgb) is
something like ten to twenty times as fast as it is in Qt.  The simple
fact is GTK has Raph Levien, and Qt does not. :)

I've also seen several KDE apps that are terribly inefficient with
memory usage.  Their spreadsheet uses up something like 3K of memory
per cell, which is terribly bad design.  In general, I am not
impressed with the amount of thought that goes into the design of most 
KDE applications; in my opinion most of them will not scale well and
will be difficult to maintain because of a lack of disciplined
development.

Kelly

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