[286] in Athena User Interface
Re: GNOME 2.0/Helix for Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Fri Jul 14 12:59:55 2000
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 14 Jul 2000 12:59:51 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Christopher D. Beland"'s message of "Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:27:45 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hr98w641k.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
"Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU> writes:
> If the real question is, "why don't we get a commercial Qt license and
> do AUI with KDE" (which for me it is) then I would answer "because
> Gnome and KDE are neck-and-neck, and we've already starting working on
> Gnome." I'd also put in a good word about how we have a really good
> working relationships with various people working on Gnome and would
> be throwing that all away if we switched.
We don't need a commercial Qt license; Qt is distributed under the QPL
and we can use it right now.
But the QPL conflicts with the GPL; it is not legal to distribute
programs which include both QPL and GPL code, and KDE is such a
program.
> I'm starting to look forward to the day when I have *one* display
> engine which is my web browser, help systemm, file viewer, and kitchen
> sink (but which is not Emacs).
I agree completely. Of course, I want it to be Emacs, which can
currently do everything but the web functionality well. Of course,
novice users might prefer a different engine, so I don't object to
providing that too. ;)
Thomas
