From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border4.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Moving away from GTK? Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 08:15:14 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: q/ev1P9zCVSwu+vpMGX5Tw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Original-Bytes: 1987 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:182708 Date: 2013-07-27T08:15:14+02:00 List-Id: On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:16:06 -0700 (PDT), Maciej Sobczak wrote: >> but Qt looks huge even comparing >> to Gtk, not good for embedded solutions... > > Wrong. Qt is very modular and it looks huge due to all the non-GUI modules > that come with it (network, XML, databases, etc.). That is the same discussion as Ada for bare boards vs. full Ada. No matter how modular it is, it is always all or nothing. Because it is not really that modular, of course... > The core part with GUI > is quite manageable and if we are talking about embedded solutions, don't > forget that Qt was acquired by Nokia (before it began to sink) - phones > look like perfect examples of "embedded solutions" to me. Ah, it was Qt that sunk Nokia! Could Qt to do that to MS too, as they have Nokia now? That would be a great service... But no, they will do it in Windows API... (:-)) -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de