Re: Qt for GNOME?
Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.devel |
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Le Wednesday, 16. July 2008 17:04:43, vous avez écrit : > I also can't help thinking that, why not put a Qt API on top of GNOME > Platform? I think you're meaning the other way around, Gnome on top of Qt, thats the topic. > Believe it or not, Qt is a more polished and integrated toolkit on the > surface, but we have better and more robust code in the inside. I say > that from my experience from Pango, having worked with Qt hackers to > merge the text shaping engine of Qt and Pango into HarfBuzz. We also > have things like cairo, which is becoming the standard drawing API on > freedesktop, is designed with API usability in mind from the beginning, > and is simply too cool to give away. I'm not into all the details relating pango and cairo implementation but at least the latter has a weakness, it has only a double-precision rendering path, no single-precision and no int-based, which is bad for embedded devices which have limited capabilities (no floating point unit, ...). -- Sascha Peilicke http://saschashideout.de