Ubuntu Hoping to Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Re:Ubuntu Hoping to Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS by mrweasel on Friday November 01, 2024 @05:39PM (#42021816)

> Motif app of yore would've been a great "investment" ... sort of like Win32/MFC.

I've slowly started getting back to desktop Linux, and honestly Motif (mwm) is fine for my needs. Maybe fvwm would be slightly better.

If I where to do my career over, I'd consider going for C++ and Win32, it seems like a stable performant platform (I get that there's other problems on modern Windows).

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Re:Ubuntu Hoping to Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS by rjsw on Friday November 01, 2024 @06:29PM (#42022193)

I'm using mwm right now, and a motif build of emacs.

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Re:Ubuntu Hoping to Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS by anthk on Saturday November 02, 2024 @05:02AM (#42025031)

EMWM there, with a Vim build of Motif too.

https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html

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Re:Ubuntu Hoping to Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS by akritid on Sunday November 03, 2024 @06:07AM (#42032383)

So there must be at least three of us. Hi!

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Re:Ubuntu Hoping to Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS by anthk on Sunday November 03, 2024 @06:51AM (#42032534)

Hello. BTW, if there's no Motif tool available, there's always TCL/TK. As an example, TKDiff.

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Re:Ubuntu Hoping to Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS by exe34 on Friday November 01, 2024 @05:47PM (#42021882)

wine is the stable abi on Linux.

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Re:Ubuntu Hoping to Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS by throwaway2046 on Friday November 01, 2024 @07:26PM (#42022572)

For those who don't know the reference: https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/

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Re:Ubuntu Hoping to Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS by exe34 on Saturday November 02, 2024 @02:21AM (#42024416)

oh I'm pretty sure I've seen that a long time before. funnily enough there was a time if you had both an os x partition for Mac os and an ext2/3 partition for Linux, the only way to share files freely between the two was through a fat32 partition.

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Re:Ubuntu Hoping to Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS by moomoo3000 on Saturday November 02, 2024 @12:50PM (#42027510)

Are you referring to exFAT?

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Re:Ubuntu Hoping to Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS by exe34 on Saturday November 02, 2024 @02:50PM (#42028335)

that's only since 2009 on Linux and snow leopard in 2010. in the years before, you had to do fat32.

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Re:Ubuntu Hoping to Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS by hulitu on Monday November 04, 2024 @08:10AM (#42041193)

> wine is the stable abi on Linux.

When it works, yes. Unfortunately, the quality of open source software, especially of big projects, has gone downhill in the later years.

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