[Skencil-devel] Revitalising Skencil

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Dienstag, 9. November 2010 04:03:38 schrieb Igor Novikov:
> So on first milestone we just
> announce a project rebirth

Yes, this is wonderful!

> but on next step we should selecting a correct 
> strategy for further project development.

> On my opinion Skencil has potential marketplace as a small, fast and
> lightweight editor only. 

I agree that can be a viable marketplace.

> Porting on Gtk widgetset is more preferable because: 

I slightly tend to disagree, but of course this is open for discussion and the 
people doing the work have a higher weight than me. I'd rather have a GTK 
Skencil then no Skencil. ;)

> 1.Most popular distros (Ubuntu & Mint) use GNOME as desktop environment.

But Qt applications already run fine there.

> 2.Gtk widgetset provides extra fast application start in GNOME DE (it's
> important for lightweight editor)

Qt can be quite lightweight and it as a very good reputation on embedded
system and good backing of large corporations (Nokia).

> 3.C language based Gtk is closer to Python native extensions than C++ based
> Qt.

Python is more object oriented, this usually fits Qt well.

> 4.This way simplifies win32 porting. Actually even for win32 simple vector
> graphics editor is also usefult.

Qt has better support on windows32api than GTK as far as I know.

> I don't see a reason developing reusable components inside Skencil because
> vector graphics issues are really specific.


(No opinion here, I really cannot say.)


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