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Ximian and Open Office

Submitted by Uraeus on Wed, 2003-03-26 12:36. OpenOffice.org

There has been lots of speculation on what Ximian has been doing with Open Office in prepartion for the GNOME 2 based version of Ximian Desktop. Well Michael Meeks made the slides from his presentation at the Open Office conference in Germany available, which details some of the changes done by Ximian.
You find the slides here.

Re: Ximian and Open Office

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2003-03-27 08:19.

I can't agree with some things you wrote.

For what I've heard QT already have a C bindings.

About 'most oss programmer liking C most', well on my point of view the differences between C and C++ are so small that aren't really a problem. I don't see why people complain about C++, it's mostly C with objects, bit thing!, if you know 3 different languages this is nothing :)

And about QT vanishing or becoming a wrap for gtk... man, I've worked already with both, and QT kicks ass, and everbody I know that worked with both agrees with me. I'm not seeing QT vanishing, but I don't see a bright future for Gtk, look at Gtk2 current situation, most of Gtk1.2 apps still wheren't ported to Gtk2, some because it's a complex thing, some because it's not woth the effort (not enought good reasons once it dosen't bring much new things). Even the porting of qt1/kde1 apps to qt2/kde2 took much less time, and that was a huge change.

But maybe I'm and people I know and like QT are just wrong :)

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