[KDE/Mac] Fwd: Article: Slackware Developer Not Happy With KDE5 Development

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Tuesday October 28 2014 09:54:49 Mario Fux wrote:

> On the other hand I think it makes sense that KDevelop is one of the first to 
> go to Qt5 and KF5 to provide a platform to develop software with these new 
> libraries.

You're probably right, though I don't see how it couldn't do that while still being KDE4-based itself.

The age-old chicken-and-egg question.
Which, btw, has a perfect biological answer IMHO: the egg was first because that 1st "chicken" bird that produced a "chicken" egg came out of one (which was produced by parents that cross-bred to produce the chicken bird variety) ;)

> on Windows and Mac and almost everywhere. People work on what they use 
> themselves, mostly in the free software world, it's a bit different in the 
> corporate work.

Yup, very true, at least for myself. Which is part of why I won't be doing substantial work on KF5 until it becomes the environment I can do the rest of my work in. Unless I start getting paid to do so ;)

> software and it's new for KDE core developer that there is a KDE software on 
> Mac movement so it needs time to work best together. But I think you're on a 
> great path.

Yes. We on our end do tend to make the apparently erroneous assumption that KDE chose to use Qt in order to be cross-platform ...

> Oh and go and take a look what masses of (KDE) code landed in Qt5. We 
> upstreamed so much.

I know, but once again that was done without feedback from platforms other than Qt/X11 on Linux. Not that I have any specific examples at hand right now, but it's an impression I've been getting. Oh, there's the thing with menu items (actions) being rearranged across menus through text-based heuristics (their term) by Qt, of course.

Cheers,
René