Guillaume and chakie asked me to clarify my whingeing about the QT API

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Guillaume and chakie asked me to
clarify my whingeing about the QT API in my previous entry.
Here’s what I told
Guillaume. He said that most of these points weren’t
significant, not really to my satisfaction. I’d post his
comments, but it was a person-to-person email thread.

> > I suppose you’re mostly thinking of the containers here,
as the widgets API is quite orthogonal IMHO. :-)

Orthogonal is maybe not the best word. In particular I
dislike the:

  • Duplication of menu APIs.
  • The confusing way that the constructors are overriden
    so
    that argument position is more important than argument
    type.
  • The way that add-to-parent is implicit in the
    construction
    of the widget.
  • The way that add-to-parent means different things
    depending on the type of the child, again implicitly. e.g.
    Layouts are not children in the same way that widgets
    are.>> Can you show me an example of what you think is
    “inadequate functionality” ?

    • The QTable has a tiny, inadequate, API.
    • There is no Document/View
      framework.
    • I do not find the choice of QLayouts very useful,
      but maybe I need to go beyond QGridLayout.

    Of course my dislike of pre-processor and non-standard
    containers is well known. We had a clear and sensible
    discussion of these issues in <a
    href=”http://news.gnome.org/993658952/993677931/993691427/993718928/index_html”>this
    gnotices thread.