Re: Shift to Qt from SDL

My initial response is that this would be a lot of work for very
little gain.  I am open to the possibility that I am wrong, but it is
certainly not something that we as developers are going to approve of
in advance.  There are several issues that such a major modification
would have to address including, but not limited to, performance,
cross platform compatability, and aesthetics.  These concerns are not
things that are really possible to address without actually making
most of the modifications.  We certainly are not going to tell someone
not to do it if that is what floats their boat, but given the amount
of effort involved, I would be wary of trying to make such large
changes for what would probably be very little if any gain.

Since I was not part of the IRC chat where this was discussed, it is
possible that the perceived benefits were discussed on IRC and the
conclusion was that they would be great.  If so, could someone please
either give the date/time of the conversation, or summarize here?

Thanks,
John

On 11/10/06, Hogne Håskjold <haskjold <at> pvv.org> wrote:
> shreedhar aka nataraj wrote:
> > hello everybody!
> >
> > This mail intends to avoid the idea born in the #wesnoth
> > freenode.irc.net <http://freenode.irc.net> channel from getting lost.
> > The idea is to shift the Graphics Engine of Battle for Wesnoth from
> > using the SDL graphics library to the Qt graphics library as this will
> > provide for a more responsive GUI than the present one.
> >
>
> My vote: no. Games using either GTK or QT doesn't look like games, they
> look like spreadsheets... (fx freeciv). We would need a lot of custom
> widgets and skinning to get the look and functionality we want and both
> are usually a pain in the ass.
>
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