noor – نور

I feel very strongly about the historical opportunity for the GNOME community to switch their tool kit over to QT 4.x. GNOME was originally a fork of effort from KDE back in the old days when QT was not GPL-enabled.

Now it is — and so for many years — I can see no reason why GNOME can’t do the switch.

This will be a major effort of course, and there will be two types of opponents in the GNOME community :
A. C-Lovers : Those who like C-language (not C++) as GTK and GNOME in general is more C-Lang than C++.
B. Mono-lovers : Those who are after mono, which is not a very successful imitation for Microsot .NET.

Lets put that a side for a minute and lets give it a hard look, GNOME development has been stalled due to many technology limitation. Even with the latest GUADEC and talk about tab-enabling (which i still think is a joke).

So, despite our love and hate, at the end of the day QT is THE most mature toolkit in the FLOSS world. It deserves all the blessings it can get … and very well deserves to be considered as an excellent candidate for the GNOME project, especially after what happened with KDE4 and their move into directions that are far from the users and community. The failure in KDE4 was a result of the people who assumed its leader ship in the last two years, and its not in any way related to QT.

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