RE: Wine, WIDE & Unix (was: Support for pkgconfig)

[Patrik Stridvall]

> > Once you have a skinning API, you just implement a 'gnome 
> > compat' and 'kde 
> > compat' skin (or even just an automagical one that does 
> > both) the thing would 
> > "just work", right?  Why, it shouldn't take more than a 
> > couple of hours ;)  
> > (WARNING: that last part was a joke, if you set your watch 
> > by this you very 
> > well may miss work for several years).
>
> I don't think we could do KDE skins, as (surprise) they depend on Qt
> which is GPLd.

Well, I can't see why Trolltech (the owners of Qt) would object.

Presumably the main reason that you would want a Qt skin for
Windows application running under Wine is that you run several
other Unix applications using Qt...

So I can't see why they wouldn't give us special permission
if we for some reason would need it...

The alternative a GTK skinned only Wine would not benefit them
at all, quite the opposite.

Wine, WIDE & Unix (was: Support for pkgconfig)

[Mike Hearn]

> Well, I can't see why Trolltech (the owners of Qt) would object.
>
> Presumably the main reason that you would want a Qt skin for
> Windows application running under Wine is that you run several
> other Unix applications using Qt...
>
> So I can't see why they wouldn't give us special permission
> if we for some reason would need it...

I'm not sure it's quite that simple though. IIRC Qt/KDE themes use the
Qt drawing primitives (like gtk skins do with gdk). Unfortunately,
Qt/Win32 is not free software, so we'd have to stub out Qt with Win32
equivalents in order to allow Qt skins to draw correctly. As GDK is
already ported to Win32 though, that'd be easier to use.

I'm sure if somebody was motivated enough they could do so, and we may
need to stub out Qt anyway for KHTML at some point. But it's a lot of
work.
> The alternative a GTK skinned only Wine would not benefit them
> at all, quite the opposite.

-- 
Mike Hearn <m.hearn(a)signal.qinetiq.com>
QinetiQ - Malvern Technology Center