Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 17:59:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 17:59:22 -0500 Received: from excalibur.cc.purdue.edu ([128.210.189.22]:21256 "EHLO ibm-ps850.purdueriots.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 17:59:21 -0500 Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:07:13 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Finnegan To: Alan Cox cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Kconfig (qt) -> Gconfig (gtk) In-Reply-To: <1036277779.16971.76.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1308 Lines: 39 On 2 Nov 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 21:57, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > > On 2 Nov 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 20:36, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > > > Oh please.... > > > > Wouldn't it be more helpful to iron the (few) small glitches out of the > > > > qt based one than write a new one just because you don't happen to like > > > > the library? > > > > > > Lota of installations have gtk but don't have qt. > > > > And a lot of installations have QT but not GTK... This feels like a vi vs > > emacs discussion. > > It sort of is. The difference being its "do I send you a vi macro or an > emacs macro", and the obvious answer in this case being that if someone > wants go write both then we all win. I'll go ahead and agree with you there. I just don't want to see one being scrapped in favor of the other. Pat -- Purdue Universtiy ITAP/RCS Information Technology at Purdue Research Computing and Storage http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2040637020924.gif - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/