[Sugar-devel] Duplication of effort

[Luke Faraone]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 17:55, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I've thrown together a few
> toolbars for Sugar Activities and it isn't that hard or even time
> consuming.
>

Exactly. So why not leverage existing app development work in Qt *and*
GTK-based products. Nobody's saying Qt is better, or takes less time. We're
talking about enabling the porting of existing applications, which will take
work, but much less work than rewriting an app in another toolkit or
completely from scratch.

>
> There were some emails in the past on how Tux Paint can't save to the
> Journal so you can't use it with Memorize, etc.
>

Odd, it used to.

So, is the solution to fix the bug, or to rewrite Tux Paint?


> The GCompris chess programs let you play with the computer but not with
> another child.
>

Again, I don't see how it's easier to rewrite an app than it is to modify an
existing codebase, such as adding on collaboration to GCompris.

-- 
Luke Faraone
http://luke.faraone.cc
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