Bazaar Explorer and GTK

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 11:48 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> writes:
>>
>>> Initially that was true. I'm not sure whether it's still the case and
>>> would also doubt that anybody is actually using that particular
>>> combination. QBzr is well ahead of bzr-gtk these days.
>>>
>>> The main thing bzr-gtk provides that QBzr doesn't as far as I'm aware
>>> is tighter integration into the GNOME desktop and a native toolkit.
>>> Neither of these is an advantage when using bzr-gtk inside of
>>> bzr-explorer.
>> Yes, those advantages are what I'm seeking. I like what I read about
>> Bazaar Explorer, but I would much prefer it to be well-integrated with
>> the GNOME desktop and use native GTK widgets.
> 
>> Would the developers of Bazaar Explorer please comment on this aspect?
>> Was it ever the case that it provided the above advantages? How far has
>> it diverged since then?
> bzr explorer uses Qt itself; it's always been an independent desktop
> app, that has never been different so I doubt it's diverged. Are you
> asking whether there are plans to convert it to GTK+ ?

My understanding is that bzr-explorer was written to be able to spawn
different programs for a given action. For example "view the history"
could call either 'bzr qlog' or 'bzr viz'.

However, the integrated view that put it all together was written in
PyQt, which naturally lends itself to being more closely associated with
qbzr. Also, development has pretty much switched, with qbzr being much
more actively maintained than bzr-gtk.


As such, if you re-did the main GUI using gtk widgets, then you've
pretty much redone everything, and it may as well be a different
application (such as Olive). And if you really wanted integration, than
nautilus-bzr would be more integrated into the Gnome infrastructure.

John
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