Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Ahlstrom Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: My 138 $ Amazon order ( for 6pm today ). Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 12:52:58 -0400 Organization: None Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <99253jp12e1cppj2940cpkpl0cbg1og25i@4ax.com> <8ce53j11p4ik1vvjt4tr5cod0ikd90jor8@4ax.com> <6634d31c$0$6437$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <663b88b0$2$1258325$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <663ba28b$0$7059$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <663e926a$0$7077$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <663f5bde$0$2422128$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <6640b560$0$7181$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <66414794$0$2363140$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Reply-To: OFeem1987@teleworm.us Injection-Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 18:52:59 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="dd1b042f61508fbbb4a2b2fefc24e12e"; logging-data="3751333"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/lHCaiNXbWyKMBCJbTVwqh" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sVfakPDNDONeOikTi1LvRGaqJvk= X-Slrn: Why use anything else? X-User-Agent: Microsoft Outl00k, Usenet K00k Editions X-Mutt: The most widely-used MUA Bytes: 3123 rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties: > On 12 May 2024 22:49:56 GMT, Andrzej Matuch wrote: > >> I have no idea. I tried liking KDE but never could. Even back in the >> late 90s and early 2000s when it looked better than Gnome, I could never >> really get into it. > > I've got the Fedora KDE spin on one machine. I prefer it to the Ubuntu on > my main machine. Some of that preference goes back to the dawn of time. I > truly disliked GTK and preferred Qt although the trolls managed to really > screw up the licensing. > > My problem with GTK started with its verbosity. I don't mind snake case > but stuff like > > gtk_create_a_new_push_button_with_rounded_corners() > > gets old. (not a real function afaik) PySide6 can be set up to use snake > case to be more 'Pythonic' but at this point I hit too many places where > you need to use Qt camel case to bother with it. I used Gtkmm (v. 2) quite a bit in an application that I later ported to Qt. I like 'em both, generally. Some things I like better about Gtkmm. -- What happened last night can happen again.