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It's things like page layout, margins, bleeds, printer profiles, support for printer features... Adding proper printing support could easily take six months, even if Qt already sup…

I actually like the feel of my M1 pro keyboard better than my 1015 15" macbook pro's keyboard. But... That weird lcd strip constantly flickering in the periphery of my vision makes…

No... It really just is the sudden drop of investment by Nokia and Intel. All those extra contributors were hires working on Maemo and Meego.

It's not going to replace the enormous investment Nokia made into the free software/linux community... So it won't help the graphs the original article showed. But by another measu…

Yes, it does, because Nokia had its fingers in both bowls of porridge, to the extent where people like Michael Meeks were fighting really hard to keep a small library like kcalenda…

I worked there -- as an outside consultant -- quite a few times. It was a pretty ordinary, meh, office building. What I remember most vividly was sitting there in the office with t…

All this wibbling about GNOME 3 and so on -- it's just not relevant to the data in the original article. The same thing happened to KDE at the time. The reason is simple: Nokia. No…

It doesn't mean a translation: it means the original text, its variants with commentary. Basically, it's what you'd use to make a new translation. Or to read for pleasure, if you c…

The thing is, of course, that you don't need to trust the Qt Company. That's why we have the KDE-Free Qt foundation, and that alone makes Qt the best choice for anyone who develope…

Weird, last time I noticed Qt being discussed on HN, I got a really useful and technical comment which is still something I'm basing my future plans on.

Even Autodesk, which uses Qt for pretty much all its products, including Maya, doesn't pay a cent for Qt. Same with The Foundry. As soon as Nokia made LGPL licensed python bindings…

"They cast steel in fires that couldn’t possibly be hot enough in our physics." That's not because of fantasy elements; it's because the author didn't do his research, and instead …

Yes. Everything was painted, and to modern eyes, as gaudily as possible.

"there are other options." Until the day when there aren't other options -- which isn't so difficult to understand, really.

As a player you cannot do _anything whatsoever_ to change the setting and rules of the game: you cannot be nicer or less nice to the indigenous people, you have to loot and destroy…

skia isn't the only alternative. Qt includes a pretty complete 2D painting engine as well.

We took the text, and translated it into Latin, so there was a Latin version of WordPerfect for use in the Vatican. Only the user interface, not the dictionaries or things like tha…

You might need to work on your reading comprehension. Particularly when it comes to sarcasm, or irony. I did quote my teacher verbatim, and he wasn't using neither irony nor sarcas…

The Tibetan script isn't difficult at all. You just need to learn the sound changes for the past five, six hundred years and apply them to logically arrive at "tro" for something w…

Reveal codes was a crutch. There was nothing great about it, no matter how much it's wrapped in a nostalgic haze now. It's basically telling people "we cannot make this wordprocess…

You could also use it in text mode, which was better. But... 5.1 was still so much more stable.

AmiPro was _not_ a good wordprocessor. It had fatal flaws, like visible redrawing the entire paragraph when changing a single character or adding a single character. And the more t…

The reason reveal codes isn't available in Word isn't some kind of petty spite. Word just doesn't intersperse formatting codes in the stream like WordPerfect did (or html does, to …

I certainly found Secular Cycles a compelling read.

Well... It's possible to use QRhi, but the blogpost explicitly says that QRhi is private and "QRhi or the new shader pipeline plays no role here at the moment, in Qt 6.0 at least. …