Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

It is not a platform in the sense that's meant in the post above, which is why I said the article is misleading, not wrong.

Like you said, KDE leverages Qt. Qt doesn't leverage KDE in the sense that "Qt's native platform is KDE".

When you say "native" when talking about a cross-platform toolkit, you're implying the toolkit was first designed to run on that platform and then ported to others. Qt predates KDE, as you well know.

Are we done splitting hairs?




>When you say "native" when talking about a cross-platform toolkit, you're implying the toolkit was first designed to run on that platform and then ported to others.

No, you're just implying (as the parent did) that the platform (KDE) had picked and stuck to the toolkit (Qt) as its basis, unlike Wx which has multiple.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: