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<H1>Proposal for a wxQt project</H1>
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Following the recent discussions
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and flamewars about KDE vs Gnome, I got worried that we see a
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repetition of the same damaging infighting from which Unix has
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suffered before. Competition is a good thing, but the current
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situation leaves application developers with a difficult decision to
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make: Write for KDE, using qt/harmony or write for Gnome, using GTK?
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Whatever happens to these projects, we will end up with a lot of
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duplicated efforts and a mix of applications written for either of the
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two environments. The result will not be the consistent look and feel
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that both projects aim for.
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The people on the wxWindows developers team thought that we might have
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a solution for this problem, if we can get some outside help to get it
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done. Let me explain: wxWindows is a cross-platform development
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toolkit, a library of C++ classes which provide GUI concepts as well
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as other cross-platform issues such as container classes, debug
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features or configuration management. It has been around since 1992G
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and started by supporting Motif, XView and MS-Windows, with a direct
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X11/Xt port added later. Last year, a major rewrite was started and we
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now have a much advanced library, available for MS Windows, with a
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Motif port under construction. Later last year, Robert Roebling set
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out on a one-man project to build wxGTK, a gtk-based implementation of
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wxWindows which in less than a year has become sufficiently stable to
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use it as the main development platform of rather large
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applications. The original wxWindows license is a variant of the LGPL,
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which should meet no objections from the free software community. In
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fact, this has been an open source project long before the term became
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commonly used. wxGTK is covered under the LGPL itself.
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Our idea is, that if this is good enough to work across different
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operating systems (a MacOS port is under construction, too), it could
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easily bridge the gap between KDE and Gnome. The quick evolution of
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wxGTK has shown that a new port based on an existing widget set or
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toolkit can easily be created by a small team within few
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months. Therefore, we would like to start a project for a Qt/Harmony
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based wxWindow library, wxQt. It would then be possible for
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application developers to write the same source and copile it either
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for KDE, Gnome or even any of the other supported systems.
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But for this we need help. The core developers are all pretty busy on
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the existing ports, but we could provide significant help and support
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for any such effort. A wxQt port could also recycle lots of existing
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code from the other ports.
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Please, join us in this effort and, if you feel that you could
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contribute, join the wxWindows developers mainling list for further
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discussions. Just send a mail containing "<tt>subscribe</tt>" to
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<tt>wxwin-developers-request@x.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de</tt>
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<p>
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You can find some more information about wxWindows at the following places:
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<ul>
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<li>The <a href="http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/">wxWindows homepage</a>.
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<li>The <a href="http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt/">wxGTK homepage</a>
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<li>The <a href="http://Ballueder.home.ml.org/M/">home of <em>M</em></a>, an email client developed using wxGTK, showing several <a href="http://Ballueder.home.ml.org/M/screenshots/">screenshots</a> of how it actually looks like.
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</ul>
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<p>
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<hr>
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Karsten Ballueder <tt><a
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href="mailto:Ballueder@usa.net">Ballueder@usa.net</a> <a
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href="http://Ballueder.home.ml.org/">http://Ballueder.home.ml.org/</a></tt>
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