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It's interesting, I had no idea this is still an issue. For the record, this is the reason a couple of folks started Gnome and GTK over 20 years ago.
by dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago
It's interesting, I had no idea this is still an issue. For the record, this is the reason a couple of folks started Gnome and GTK over 20 years ago.
- simion314 7y agoNo, at that time Qt was not free software. Now Qt is free software and you can fork it and do whatever you want. The issue seems to be that there are many people that use Qt for free including companies but they won't pay with money or contributions, so if a work will happen except KDE there will be few contributors. Qt includes a version of Webkit that is used in some application, so you need someone to keep on top of webkit security issues and backport the fixes.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago> many people that use Qt for free including companies but they won't pay with money or contributions That is one of the things that free software allows, yeah. > so if a work will happen except KDE there will be few contributors Even if that's true, is KDE not enough? > Qt includes a version of Webkit that is used in some application, so you need someone to keep on top of webkit security issues and backport the fixes. I assumed that the QT end of that was a thin wrapper around upstream webkit; is it really that involved?