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- <H1>Proposal for a wxQt project</H1>
+ <H1>Proposal for a port of wxWindows to Qt - wxQt</H1>
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Following the recent discussions
- and flamewars about KDE vs Gnome, I got worried that we see a
+ and flamewars about KDE vs Gnome, we got worried that we'll see a
repetition of the same damaging infighting from which Unix has
suffered before. Competition is a good thing, but the current
situation leaves application developers with a difficult decision to
The people on the wxWindows developers team thought that we might have
a solution for this problem, if we can get some outside help to get it
- done. Let me explain: wxWindows is a cross-platform development
+ done. Let us explain: wxWindows is a cross-platform development
toolkit, a library of C++ classes which provide GUI concepts as well
as other cross-platform issues such as container classes, debug
- features or configuration management. It has been around since 1992G
+ features or configuration management. It has been around since 1992
and started by supporting Motif, XView and MS-Windows, with a direct
X11/Xt port added later. Last year, a major rewrite was started and we
now have a much advanced library, available for MS Windows, with a
operating systems (a MacOS port is under construction, too), it could
easily bridge the gap between KDE and Gnome. The quick evolution of
wxGTK has shown that a new port based on an existing widget set or
- toolkit can easily be created by a small team within few
+ toolkit can easily be created by a small team within a few
months. Therefore, we would like to start a project for a Qt/Harmony
based wxWindow library, wxQt. It would then be possible for
- application developers to write the same source and copile it either
+ application developers to write the same source and compile it either
for KDE, Gnome or even any of the other supported systems.
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code from the other ports.
Please, join us in this effort and, if you feel that you could
- contribute, join the wxWindows developers mainling list for further
+ contribute, join the wxWindows developers mailing list for further
discussions. Just send a mail containing "<tt>subscribe</tt>" to
- <tt>wxwin-developers-request@x.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de</tt>
+ <tt>wxwin-developers-request@wx.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de</tt>
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You can find some more information about wxWindows at the following places:
<ul>
<li>The <a href="http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/">wxWindows homepage</a>.
<li>The <a href="http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt/">wxGTK homepage</a>
+<li>The <a
+ href="http://Ballueder.home.ml.org/wxWindows/wxQt.html">wxQt
+ proposal</a>(this text)
<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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