[CREATE] Cross Software UI

[Craig]

Sven Langkamp wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine
> <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com <mailto:alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> 
>     On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Craig wrote:
> 
>     > Erm.. answer = No at this point from the Scribus team. Happy with Qt,
>     > thanks.
> 
>     Of course, if GTK+ should be common denominator in LDS, one could
>     always try to give a kiss of life to Passepartout once again.
> 
> 
> Well that's the problem. Many developers would rather sacrifice their
> grandmother than switching the toolkit. So for the foreseeable any
> discussion about switching toolkits is pretty much useless.
> Any decision for a toolkit would inevitably lead to a split. Same for
> the UI. Do you expect that all projects could agree to a common UI?
> After all Linux is about choice, so this isn't necessary a bad thing.

You are going to have to consider movement in areas like keyboard
shortcuts too.. trying to align gimp/scribus/inkscape with shortcuts is
 going to need exploring too. Some shortcuts just don't cross the
application boundary.

Craig