Ubuntu One Gets A New Qt Interface For Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

[GreyGeek]

http://www.webupd8.org/2012/02/ubunt...rface-for.html

A new Ubuntuone-Installer version was uploaded to the Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin repositories today and with it, Ubuntu One has switched to a new Qt interface by default, replacing the old GTK version.

According to a bug report, the Ubuntu One team is no longer supporting the GTK interface so it will be removed soon.

Among the reasons behind this decision are: deprecated pygtk bindings, uniform interface across all the platforms, usability and others.

I noticed the qt dialog in the Kubuntu Precise repositories a couple weeks ago, so I installed it to try it out. It didn't work well, but neither did the gtk version. They both crashed every time I tried to load them. I had to use my browser to move stuff between my local files and UbuntuOne. Monday, an update fixed UbuntuOne and the both versions began working beautifully, and I made the Qt version default in the menu. Looked better, too. I am wondering why they took the time to fix the Gtk version if they were going to drop it?

Is removing from UbuntuOne all traces of Gtk & Python bindings a pattern that could extend to Ubuntu itself? I hope not, at least until the many apps that may possibly be affected have good Qt equivelents. This raises questions about Gtk dependent apps like GIMP, AbiWord, Dia, GnuCash, Gnumeric, Glade, Anjunta, Ekiga, Chromium, GRAMPS, InkScape, LiVES, Midori, Pidgin, gconfig and many others on the Ubuntu platform?

When one considers the dozens upon dozens of applications that are dependent on the pygtk library the carnage carnage could be even worse:
PyGtk Applications

Hundreds of applications could be removed from the Ubuntu repositories. Adding in the supporting libraries and the number of files in the Ubuntu repositories could drop several thousand below the 30,000 now resident. This could have a disastrous affect on the usability of distros spun off of Ubuntu.

I hope this is not a pattern, and doubt that it is, but if it is Kubuntu may be going upstream to Debian faster than anyone realized.

[SteveRiley]

Unity 2D is written in Qt. Perhaps we're witnessing the beginnings of something bigger?

http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/10/20/ubuntu-and-qt/
http://askubuntu.com/questions/16253...nity-use/17929

[GreyGeek]

Unity 2D is written in Qt. Perhaps we're witnessing the beginnings of something bigger?

http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/10/20/ubuntu-and-qt/
http://askubuntu.com/questions/16253...nity-use/17929

Those articles were over a year old, but promising.

I've registered for a Spark tablet, which runs Plasma-Active-2, based on Qt, which is why I supported it.

Before Ubuntu came out and made Gnome its featured DE in 2005, KDE held perhaps 80% of the Linux DE market share. Before Canonical abandon Gnome it had probably an 80% market share. Now, I suspect that they are pretty much equal in market share.

Personally, I don't like Gnome, but I'd use it if push came to shove. I think it is good that the Linux ecosystem have at least two very viable DE's, and that is not counting four or five others that are fairly nice as well. However, I've tried most of them and they've never lasted a day on my desktop. This will be my 14th year using KDE, and from 2003 until I retired Qt was the API I used at work to write in-house client-server apps. Qt/QtCreator is what I use to play with programming since I retired. A Qt powered UI will be shining on my face until my eyes stop perceiving the light that shines off of it.

[SecretCode]

Interesting links, SR.

GG: I see no risk whatever that GTK+ will be removed or obsoleted or deprecated in *buntu or GNOME. It's just that they are promoting another toolkit.