Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing

[Mike Newman]

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 01:34, MJ Ray wrote:

> But would we?  Wasn't the other serious KDE/GNOME tension the C++ vs
> C-and-the-rest language divide?  Weren't many GNOME hackers unhappy with the
> architecture of KDE?  I'm sure the lack of freedom of Qt at the time played
> its part, but I think there were other motivations too.

In my recollection, you're correct here. The non-free status of Qt was
an initial impetus, and reared its head later (as TrollTech tried to fix
things), but in the interim far more blood was spilled on issues of
language choice, and more importantly, in seeking a more solid
architechture.

Mike