Consider me sceptical if we rely on Trolltech's qprinter only, and if we do that long-term
Kurt Pfeifle
k1pfeifle at gmx.net
Sat Sep 15 00:24:16 BST 2007
Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
>> On Friday 14 September 2007 23:27, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>> You said it yourself: printing isn't sexy. Yes. And people don't print
>>> that much anymore.
>> Do you or does Trolltech have hard data on that?
>
> No. This is just guessing from me.
>
> And I should be comparing the relative importance of the subsystems.
> Almost all applications today are networked. How many print?
>
> Think kdegames, kdetoys, kdeedu applications.
>
> Let me make it clear: I am not saying printing is not important or that we
> can ignore it. I am merely justifying why other areas of Qt got more
> attention. I thought that would be a no-brainer.
..and you happily avoided to comment on the 3 specific examples I gave
(where Qt3 sucks) :-)
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