Re: Qt Xemacs ??
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On Monday 29 April 2002 06:02, Simon Josefsson wrote:
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, pax! wrote:
> > It's not a question of love. The GNU project has chosen to support
> > GTK (because at that time Qt was not free, because it was felt that
> > using C++ for such a library was not a good idea and also because...)
> > and so it is considered more relevant to make GNU software such as
> > Emacs work well with GTK than with Qt.
> >
> >
> > If the Qt code is under GPL, I see no reason why XEmacs couldn't have
> > a Qt version (without even asking RMS) as long as that version "is
> > targeted at the GPL version of Qt".
>
> I think it's _very_ interesting to have a qt version of XEmacs, mainly
> targeted to those of us who use KDE or prefer KDE applicacions, which
> are an important part of linux users community. Since KDE is GPLed,
> and is only on UNIX (AFAIK), I can't see where is the problem. Maybe
> converting XEmacs into a KDE application instead a raw Qt application
> whould make the integration smoother and resolved any GPL problem.
I agree. Making XEmacs a proper TextEditor KPART would be quite useful.
The only relevance of RMS opinion here seems to be that such code would
not end up in Emacs. The license is not a problem (except for Windows,
but XEmacs doesn't need to support Qt under Windows). It is unfortunate
that Emacs will not support some free software such as KDE, but it
shouldn't stop XEmacs from doing it IMHO.
Im totally with you....if Qt alone is such license-trouble well then maybe
with a native KDE xemacs that would be solved.....i had thought of a qt port
for those that like qt and doesnt like kde, personally i think it would be
awesome to have xemacs as the powerfull editor for KDE (no ofense mean to
Kate:) ) and i also agree with the point that xemacs doesnt need to support
qt under windows, xemacs is fine enought with the windows system
libraries....
A Xemacs KPart would be just great, and i dont see why the people of emacs
and rms couldnt support both GNOME and KDE too....
Cheers....
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