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"What it lacks is an extensive screen reader like GNOME's Orca": Do you really think our time is best spent spending time reimplementing Orca just so we have something in Qt? Maybe someday someone will, but right now we have better things to do. This kind of mentality of "my toolkit or DIE!" is a disease. It makes us waste more effort and time when it isn't specifically needed. In this case, just use Orca with KDE4 apps.
-- Aaron Segio.
Agreed! -- Colin, who is currently using the official Last.fm client written in Qt because, hey it worked, and it's Free Software.
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Toolkit Solipsism
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Re: Toolkit Solipsism
Re: Toolkit Solipsism
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Re: Toolkit Solipsism
A KDE app will always feel "alien" on a GNOME desktop and vice versa. Having 2 versions of most apps is the logical consequence of having 2 toolkits.
It's not a huge problem but as a GNOME user I would always prefer a GTK app to do a certain job. A KDE app would have to do it *much* better to beat my need for consistency.
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Re: Toolkit Solipsism
Therefore, like you I tend to shy away from using the other toolkit for my daily apps. For me that means I use Qt/KDE almost exclusively, but it works in either direction.
However, I'm fine with using GTK apps if they are niche apps that I use rarely (for example, GTK-recordmydesktop, while pretty crappy, is still better than the KDE version). If I needed a screen reader, I would certainly not care that it was using GTK instead of Qt. But for main apps (file manager or text editor for example) I would never consider using a GTK app, unless it was staggeringly better, which is not true for any of the major apps anyway.
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We *can* get along, it just takes some effort and compromise from *both* sides.
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last-exit
I saw your post on Planet Gnome. There is actually already a Last.fm client in GNOME, last-exit and I prefer it to the Qt one.
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