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.
Well, the point is that i'm pretty sure that both Trolltech (and the KDE project) would very much like to Qt themed Wine in order to compete in the desktop market so I'm sure it would be possible to get some sort of "deal" somehow.
Perhaps just releasing the Qt drawing primatives implementation under the LGPL would be a solution that would be acceptable to all parties. I can't see Trolltech losing very much from doing that.
No work at all (except convincing Trolltech to do that).
On April 29, 2003 07:50 am, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
Well, the point is that i'm pretty sure that both Trolltech (and the KDE project) would very much like to Qt themed Wine in order to compete in the desktop market so I'm sure it would be possible to get some sort of "deal" somehow.
That'd be great -- do you mind getting in touch with them on this issue? They do have an incentive go give us such a permission, it will be an interesting experiment.
Well, the point is that i'm pretty sure that both Trolltech (and the KDE project) would very much like to Qt themed Wine in order to compete in the desktop market so I'm sure it would be possible to get some sort of "deal" somehow.
Perhaps just releasing the Qt drawing primatives implementation under the LGPL would be a solution that would be acceptable to all parties. I can't see Trolltech losing very much from doing that.
No work at all (except convincing Trolltech to do that).
Hehehe, yeah, that's the hard part, especially as the difference between Qt/X11 and Qt/Win32 is mostly the drawing primitives/window creation code.
Bah. This is stupid. Before we start adding theming to Wine, I think somebody should at least make an attempt at a unified theming standard. Otherwise we're just going to end up with huge amounts of bloat and duplication in Wine already. A standard system would be much better. No, I don't have time for that :(
-
Dimitrie O. Paun -
Mike Hearn -
Patrik Stridvall