Ubuntu's Unity Written In Qt/QML For "Unity Next"

[Luke_Wolf]

Also I don't suppose you remember the old Song: London Bridge is falling down? It was actually about the real bridge which despite their best efforts kept collapsing until the second to last one which ended up just becoming obsolete.

Bridge engineers stand on the shoulders of engineers before them that figured it out who are standing on the rubble of the previous engineer's mistakes.

and also watch this related to rocket failures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEFNjL86y9c

And there's always Apollo 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rBA0iAE8T4
and the infamous Apollo 13
And Space Shuttle Columbia, and this list can go on...

[JanC]

Qt is so much more advanced than GTK and pretty much always has been. Honestly, only the tin foil hat folks and people who have an aversion to object oriented programming would dislike this decision.

Both Gtk & Qt are OOP toolkits, so I don't see how that changes things in that respect...?

[JS987]

Both Gtk & Qt are OOP toolkits, so I don't see how that changes things in that respect...?

Gtk is written in C which doesn't support OOP features like classes, methods, constructors, destructors, polymorphism, inheritance
and features like templates, operator overloading

[curaga]

Gtk is written in C which doesn't support OOP features like classes, methods, constructors, destructors, polymorphism, inheritance
and features like templates, operator overloading

Which means that it compiles in 0.05% of the time and takes 1% of the disk space

[Akka]

You can use GObject with gtk and c

[JS987]

You can use GObject with gtk and c

GObject is retarded emulation of OOP.

[JanC]

Gtk is written in C which doesn't support OOP features like classes, methods, constructors, destructors, polymorphism, inheritance
and features like templates, operator overloading

C doesn't have direct language support (as in "syntactic sugar") for those things, but it doesn't prevent you from using (some of) them, and that is what happens in Gtk, which is based on the GObject object implementation.

(And if you want to use a language with syntactic sugar for OOP, you could always use Vala instead.)

[JS987]

C doesn't have direct language support (as in "syntactic sugar") for those things, but it doesn't prevent you from using (some of) them, and that is what happens in Gtk, which is based on the GObject object implementation.
(And if you want to use a language with syntactic sugar for OOP, you could always use Vala instead.)

If you use GObject, doesn't mean you use real OOP. GObject is only fake emulation of OOP using functional programming.

[phoen1x]

There is a very strange trend towards specialisation that is very new. It used to be that all distros offered tweaked KDE and GNOME desktops for the user to choose. Now it seems like each distro wants its own desktop in order to provide a certain kind of experience.

GNOME is RedHat's private desktop nowadays.
Unity is Ubuntu's desktop.
Cinnamon is Mint's desktop.

You can run them on other distros, but it's clear who does all the development and decides the direction.

Wrong. Ubuntu still uses gnome, it's just by creating gnome-shell gnome developers let canonical create their own shell not whole DE. Cinamon is same gnome. Please just because it has different name it doesn't mean it absolutely new thing...

[Akka]

GObject is retarded emulation of OOP.

I have never tried GObjects. But how do I identity real OOP. It is possible to create something like OOP in pure c. Many c project do that. Is that real OOP?