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Story: GNOME to fish in embedded Linux pond

Posted by: Anonymous (Tuesday 11 October 2005, 3:37 PM)

> The cost is trivial for a larger outfit of course, but it is
> not cheap for a small shop (1-5 developers or so).

You've never been in a small development shop then. They spend thousand on development tools, and you might as well ask for free furniture, heating, lighting and premises for all your employees.

> The perceived advantages to Qt over GTK is rather
> overstated. We have looked into both and the
> difference in "productivity" is just about negliglible.

You haven't looked hard enough. Sad to say, but only a die-hard GTK fan makes that kind of comment. GTK isn't even a complete development framework either, so I don't know how you can make that comparison.

> One toolkit has advantages in one area, the other
> in another. There is no clear-cut winner,
> development wise, but depends on your
> particular needs and priorities.

Nope, Qt blows it out of the water. Any developer can see that. End.