Developping Gnome apps : need general advise...

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> I forgot to say, that KDevelop does not require KDE and generates GNOME
> applications of the same quality as Anjuta does.

Does it ? Ha, interesting, KDE developers are very open minded it
seems...

> Installation will add a lot of KDE libraries and this will be the only problem.

Hmmm, a few libraries is not the problem, as they azre easily/cleanly
removed via synaptic. The problem is the whole KDE app GUI look and
feel. Developping a program takes many hundreds of hours, so unless
Anjuta is not good enough (looks mature enough so should be okay), I
wouls have a hard time convincing myself to stare at, and use a KDE app
for any length of time :o(
I had no choice with web design, because Quanta was clearly superior to
the Gnome alternatives (until I managed to get Dreamweaver running in
VMware of course... :o).

As far as I can see, though, Kdevelop share the same basic qualities I
found to Quanta, a huge plus compared to Gnome apps : load time and very
fast/responsive GUI. Something the GTK team ought to sort out
someday...hopefully :-/
But to me, the look and feel/complexity of any and all KDE app, is the
one and only huge turn-off. Just doesn't look professional/serious, more
like a 6 year old kid game-box or something, funky colours and loads of
icons and buttons all over the place...

Then again, if only gnome apps could be as fast/responsive as KDE apps,
what a wonderful world Gnome would be indeed...one day maybe...


--
Vince