Re: future of development for the desktop

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

Do you have any benchmarks results to back up the "slower" claim?

As for MSVC, I don't know. I don't think why we should reject patches
if someone has MSVC 11 Professional, and I don't think we should rip
support for MSVC 2010.

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Gour <gour atmarama net>
>> To: gtk-list gnome org
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 7:40 PM
>> Subject: Re: future of development for the desktop
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>> On Fri, 25 May 2012 09:22:55 -0700 (PDT)
>> Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com> wrote:
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>>>  Nowadays there is QML (
>>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML ) and in my opinion, though I do not
>>>  know Javascript, it can be compared to Perl (e.g. closures are
>>>  present), so today I'd probably choose Qt + QML.
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>> "QML is mainly used for mobile applications where touch input, fluid
>> animations (60 FPS) and user experience are crucial."
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>> Sincerely,
>> Gour
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> I didn't read the whole QML documentation, but I don't think that QML can not be used without animations and that it cannot be used with traditional input from mouse and keyboard.
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> I.e. my understanding of QML is that it's JavaScript-like language Qt binding with additional capabilities like GUI creation from description and the features you've mentioned.
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> Still, since we are discussing bare-naked gtk+, I am re-asking my question: in what aspects gtk+ is better than Qt ? Especially, since we already know it (used to be ? still is ?) slower tan Qt.
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> Regards,
>   Sergei.
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  Jasper