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It's kind of cathartic watching this happen to a new generation of developers. They can't say I didn't warn them! Ultimately I think this will be quite good fo
by traverseda 5y ago
It's kind of cathartic watching this happen to a new generation of developers. They can't say I didn't warn them!
Ultimately I think this will be quite good for QT/kde in the long term. Gnome/GTK gets a lot of corporate support, especially from red hat, but seeing the issues pop OS had with GTK makes me hopeful that more companies will adopt QT.
- lmm 5y agoI've been hoping that for 20 years but it hasn't happened yet. It seemed like American companies always favoured GTK/GNOME (I guess because Qt/KDE development was more European?), even though Qt/KDE generally managed to do more with less. But I can appreciate that if you're aiming for the corporate market, customizability may be a downside.
- IshKebab 5y agoQt is far more popular in corporate software than GTK. It's way better, and companies don't care about Gnome or KDE so there's no reason to pick GTK.
- nine_k 5y agoI think that Red Hat (now part of freaking IBM) has always been oriented to big corporations, knows how to speak their language, and is an obvious choice for corporate Linux support. If you're already in bed with RH on the server front, it makes obvious business sense to also follow them on the (much, much smaller) desktop front. Since RH basically owns Gnome development (I know, I know), they impressvely used it as a lever to push systemd adoption, for instance: major distros had to switch to it not (solely) on its merits, but because they could not drop Gnome support. KDE does not seem to have an equivalent behemoth behind them, even though Qt enjoys a lot of heavyweight corporate support.
- calvinmorrison 5y agoWhich is insane because even back in KDE 3.5 days, and Trinity following that, the support for complex user environments, security features, using any type of remote storage natively through the KIO subsystem, really good support for LDAP and AD and other things... it seemed like a natural fit for a more complex corporate environment. Especially tools like Konqueror and Kmail, both of which to me follow a natural progression out of the windows of the late 90's era, had really good usability and made sense fairly quickly to windows users.
- lmm 5y agoYeah. SUSE (at one point owned by Novell) was kind of trying to go the same route, but never really got as big as RH. (Though again I wonder how much of that was just an America/Europe split)
- travisgriggs 5y agoOr as my office mate always points out: “Big likes big.”
- aftbit 5y agoDropbox desktop app is written in QT, at least on Windows and Linux. Mac uses its own custom UI to better fit with the Mac-app world.